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alfred tarski draghals , iceland icelandic mathematics , logic brown university vanderbilt university university of minnesota , minneapolis 15 february 1920 de peter fillmore frederick galvin bjarni jónsson.jpg bjarni jónsson
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bjarni jónsson

bjarni jónsson -lrb- born february 15 , 1920 -rrb- 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 , jónsson -- tarski algebras and jónsson -- tarski duality .
in 2012 he became a fellow of the american mathematical society .
