Arnold Oberschelp

Arnold Oberschelp (* 5 February 1932 in Recklinghausen) is a German mathematician and logician. He was for many years professor of logic and  in Kiel.

Life
Oberschelp studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Göttingen and Münster. In Münster he received in Dec. 1957 his doctorate in mathematical logic under Hans Hermes. In 1958 he was a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute of the Technical College of Hannover (now Leibniz University Hannover) where he habilitated in mathematics in 1961. In 1968, he accepted an appointment as full professor of logic and science at the University of Kiel. Oberschelp has been emeritus professor since 1997.

Arnold Oberschelp developed a general class logic in which arbitrary classes can be formed without the contradictions of naive set theory. Additional axioms result in the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, which is much more handy in his class-logical representation than in the usual predicate logical representation.

In 1962 he gave a lecture as an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm on classes as "primal elements" in set theory.

From 1970 to 1976 he was chairman of the , on whose board he served from 1965 to 1978.

In Sep. 2019, he received the German Institute for Standardization's Beuth Memorial Coin in recognition of his services to standardization in mathematics and technical foundations.

Selected works 
 
  
 
 Elementare Logik und Mengenlehre I/II. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim/Wien/Zürich 1974/1978, .
 
 Jürgen-Michael Glubrecht, Arnold Oberschelp, Günter Todt: Klassenlogik. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim/Wien/Zürich 1983, .
  — Review: 
 Allgemeine Mengenlehre. BI-Wiss.-Verlag, Mannheim/Leipzig/Wien/Zürich 1994, .
 Logik für Philosophen. 2nd ed., Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar 1997, .

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Category:German mathematicians
Category:1932 births
Category:University of Kiel faculty
Category:University of Göttingen alumni
Category:University of Münster alumni
Category:University of Hanover faculty
Category:Set theorists
Category:People from Recklinghausen
Category:Living people