Professor Leon Birnbaum was born in Chernovtsy (now Ukraine) on June 18, 1918 to a family of intellectual tradition. He studies at the Orthodox High School and then at the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1941 the war reaches Chernovtsy. Leon Birnbaum is deported in Transnistria at Magilev - Podolsk until 1944.
In 1946 he was appointed as a Mathematic teacher at Strehaia, Romania, then at Turnu - Severin and Dej. Meanwhile he obtains a title in Russian Language and Literature and then an engineering license in Machine Technology. Encouraged by friends, Leon Birnbaum starts to publish Mathematical and Logical articles in "Mathematical Studies and Research" magazine from Bucharest, "Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logics" magazine in USA and many others.
He's a member of "Association Internationale de Cybernetique" in Namur, Belgium and a member of the Redactional Board of the "Informatica" magazine in Ljubliana, Slovenia.
He's a honorable citizen of the ASTRA Division "Dr. Teodor Mihali" in Dej.
Leon Birnbaum published the following books:
An Introduction to Logosophy - the Litera Ed., Bucharest, 1983. The greeat logician Anton Dumitriu appreciated this book as: "a comprehensive work as philosophical and logical vision and very original in its mathematical conception".
Multa et Multum - the Litera Ed., Bucharest, 1984.
An Essay on a Finite Ontology - the Aletheia Ed., Bistrita, 1999.
Tripolar Algebra and Elements of Quadripolar Algebra - the Aletheia Ed., Bistrita, 2000.
A Finite Cosmology and Matters of Theosophy and of the Axiomatic - the Aletheia Ed., Bistrita, 2001.
An Introduction to Aletheutics - the Aletheia Ed., Bistrita, 2001.
Theatre - the Aletheia Ed., Bistrita, 2001.
We render here the entire text of the "Finite Cosmology", an intriguing work of an astounding originality, that reveals the ontological, philosophical and logical vision of one of the brightest minds of the last decades:
The Origins and the Evolution of the Esthetics and the Ethics
A Project of Geometric Axiomatics in a Finite Ontology
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