Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus

Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus (born 22 February 1939 in Hemer, Province of Westphalia) is a German mathematician and logician. He received his PhD in 1967 at the University of Münster under Hans Hermes and Dieter Rödding.

Ebbinghaus has written various books on logic, set theory and model theory, including a seminal work on Ernst Zermelo. His book ''Einführung in die mathematische Logik'', joint work with Jörg Flum and Wolfgang Thomas, first appeared in 1978 and became a standard textbook of mathematical logic in the German-speaking area. It is currently in its sixth edition (). An English edition of ''Mathematical Logic'' was published in the Springer-Verlag Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series in 1984 (), with a second edition in 1994 () and a third edition in 2021 (). Provided by Wikipedia