Petr Vopěnka

Petr Vopěnka
Petr Vopěnka in 2009
Born	(1935-05-16)16 May 1935 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died	20 March 2015(2015-03-20) (aged 79)
Nationality	Czech
Alma mater	Mathematics and Physics Faculty, Charles University in Prague
Scientific career
Doctoral students	Bohuslav Balcar Lev Bukovský Jaroslav Chudáček Karel Čuda Petr Hájek Karel Hrbáček Thomas Jech Magdaléna Krátká Josef Mlček Antonín Sochor Alena Vencovská Peter Vojtáš Blanka Vojtášková Pavol Zlatoš

Petr Vopěnka (16 May 1935 – 20 March 2015) was a Czech mathematician. In the early 1970s, he established the alternative set theory. Since the mid-eighties he concerned himself with philosophical questions of mathematics.

Works by Petr Vopěnka

• Petr Vopěnka (2004). Horizonty nekonečna. Prague: Moraviapress. ISBN 80-86181-66-9.
• Petr Vopěnka (1999). Úhelný kámen evropské vzdělanosti a moci. Prague: Práh. ISBN 80-7252-022-9.
• Petr Vopěnka (1989). Introduction to mathematics in the alternative set theory. Bratislava: Alfa. ISBN 80-05-00438-9.
• Petr Vopěnka (1979). Mathematics in the Alternative Set Theory. Leipzig: Teubner. ASIN B0006E3AXY.
• Petr Vopěnka, Petr Hájek (1972). The Theory of Semisets[[Category:Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text]]. Amsterdam, Prague: North-Holland. ISBN 0-7204-2267-1. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)

Other websites

• Short biography in English Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Documentary about Vopěnka Archived 2010-10-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Czech with English subtitles, freely downloadable)