Bjarni Jónsson
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| Born | 1920 (age 91–92) |
| Nationality |  Icelandic |
| Fields | Mathematics, logic |
| Institutions | Brown University Vanderbilt University University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Tarski |
| Doctoral students | Peter Fillmore Frederick Galvin |
Bjarni Jónsson (born 1920) is an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra and lattice theory. He is emeritus Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University and the honorary editor in chief of Algebra Universalis. He received his PhD in 1946 at UC Berkeley under supervision of Alfred Tarski.
Several mathematical objects are named for him, among them Jónsson algebras, ω-Jónsson functions, Jónsson cardinals, Jónsson terms, and Jónsson–Tarski duality.
Jónsson is the father of author and communications trainer Meryl Runion, whose Speak Strong Speak Strong Web site training methods have been used by the US Army, FBI, IBM, and Fortune 500 companies to train staff how to communicate effectively.
[edit] Publications
- Jónsson, Bjarni (1972), Topics in universal algebra, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 250, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0058648, MR0345895
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