Mojżesz Presburger

Mojżesz Presburger (* December 27, 1904 in Warsaw, † 1943) was a Polish mathematician, logician and philosopher. He was a student of Alfred Tarski and Presburger arithmetic invented in 1929, a purely additive arithmetic without multiplication, for which he proved a completeness theorem.

Mojżesz Presburger probably died in 1943 in a German concentration camp.

Honors

The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science gives to young scientists since 2010 named after him Presburger Award.