# Per Lindström

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Swedish logician (1936–2009)

**Per "Pelle" Lindström** (9 April 1936 – 21 August 2009, [Gothenburg](/source/Gothenburg))[1] was a [Swedish](/source/Swedish_people) [logician](/source/Logician), after whom [Lindström's theorem](/source/Lindstr%C3%B6m's_theorem) and the [Lindström quantifier](/source/Lindstr%C3%B6m_quantifier) are named.[2] (He also independently discovered [Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé games](/source/Ehrenfeucht%E2%80%93Fra%C3%AFss%C3%A9_game).[1]) He was one of the key followers of [Lars Svenonius](/source/Lars_Svenonius).[3]

Lindström was awarded a PhD from the [University of Gothenburg](/source/University_of_Gothenburg) in 1966.[4] His thesis was titled *Some Results in the Theory of Models of First Order Languages*. A [festschrift](/source/Festschrift) for Lindström was published in 1986.[5]

## Selected publications

- Per Lindström, First Order Predicate Logic with Generalized Quantifiers, *Theoria* 32, 1966, 186–195.

- Per Lindström, On Extensions of Elementary Logic, *Theoria* 35, 1969, 1–11.

- Per Lindström (1997). *Aspects of incompleteness*. Springer-Verlag. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-540-63213-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-540-63213-9).; 2nd ed. published by ASL in 2003, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-56881-173-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-56881-173-4)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ASL_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ASL_1-1) [ASL](/source/Association_for_Symbolic_Logic) [Newsletter](http://www.aslonline.org/files/newsletters/pdfs/Sept2009newsletter.pdf), September 2009

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Jacquette, Dale (2005). *A companion to philosophical logic*. p. 329. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-4051-4575-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4051-4575-7).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Burr, John Roy (1980). [*Handbook of world philosophy*](https://archive.org/details/handbookofworldp0000unse/page/186). p. [186](https://archive.org/details/handbookofworldp0000unse/page/186). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-313-22381-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-313-22381-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Per Lindström](https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=112137) at the [Mathematics Genealogy Project](/source/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Lindström, Per; Furberg, Mats; Wetterström, Thomas; Åberg, Claes (1986). *Logic and abstraction: essays dedicated to Per Lindström on his fiftieth birthday*. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [91-7346-168-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/91-7346-168-7).

## Further reading

- [Väänänen, J.](/source/Jouko_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen); Westerståhl, D. (2010). ["In Memoriam: Per Lindström"](http://www.math.helsinki.fi/logic/opetus/lt/Pelle.pdf) (PDF). *[Theoria](/source/Theoria_(philosophy_journal))*. **76** (2): 100–107. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1111/j.1755-2567.2010.01069.x](https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1755-2567.2010.01069.x).

## External links

- [Per Lindström](https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=112137) at the [Mathematics Genealogy Project](/source/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project)

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