Henry Pogorzelski

Henry Andrew Pogorzelski (September 26, 1922 - December 30, 2015)[1] was an American mathematician of Polish descent,[2] a professor of mathematics at the University of Maine.[3][4] Born in Harrison, New Jersey,[5] Pogorzelski served in the U.S. Army in World War II.[2] He received his Ph.D. from CUNY in 1969 under the advisor Raymond Smullyan; his dissertation was on "Goldbach Sentences in Some Abstract Arithmetics Constructed from a Generalization of Ordinary Recursive Arithmetic".[7] In 1974, after he had joined the Maine faculty, he was the only American invited by the Polish Academy of Science to visit Poland for the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus.[2] In 2002, the University of Maine attempted to suspend Pogorzelski from teaching duties, but backed down after he filed an age discrimination complaint.
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