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Benjamin Abram Bernstein (20 May 1881,
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.Benjamin Abram Bernstein, University of California: In Memoriam, April 1965
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Biography

With his Jewish family, Bernstein immigrated as a child to the United States. After completing public primary education in 1897 in Baltimore, he completed in 1902 his secondary education at
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, and then received in 1905 his A.B. degree from
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. After completing two years of graduate study at Johns Hopkins University, he became in 1907 an instructor and continuing graduate student in mathematics at the
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. There he received in 1913, with supervisor Mellen W. Haskell, his Ph.D. At Berkeley, Bernstein became in 1918 an assistant professor, in 1923 an associate professor, and in 1928 a full professor of mathematics, retiring in 1951 as professor emeritus. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1924 in Toronto. He was elected in 1931 a fellow of the
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. His doctoral students include Robert LevitRobert Levit Obituary, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2010
/ref> and J.C.C. McKinsey. In June 1920 in New York City, Professor Bernstein married Rose Davidson; her brother was the sculptor
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. Bernstein was predeceased by his wife and upon his death was survived by a daughter and a granddaughter.


Selected publications

*with A. O. Leuschner: * * * * ** Errata for 1924 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. vol. 26, pages 171–175: published Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1925) 600. * * *
"On the Serial Relations in Boolean Algebras"
''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'' 32(5) 523,4 1926 * * *with Nemo Debely: * * * * * * * * * * *with
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References


External links


Guide to the Benjamin Abram Bernstein papers, 1901–1963, Online Archive of California
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernstein, Benjamin Abram 1881 births 1964 deaths Mathematical logicians 20th-century American mathematicians Baltimore City College alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States