Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus

Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus (born 22 February 1939 in Hemer, Province of Westphalia) is a German mathematician and logician.

He received his PhD in 1967 at the University of Münster under Hans Hermes and Dieter Rödding.

[1] Ebbinghaus has written various books on logic, set theory and model theory, including a seminal[citation needed] work on Ernst Zermelo.

His book Einführung in die mathematische Logik, joint work with Jörg Flum and Wolfgang Thomas, first appeared in 1978 and became a standard textbook of mathematical logic in the German-speaking area.

An English edition of Mathematical Logic was published in the Springer-Verlag Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series in 1984 (ISBN 0387908951), with a second edition in 1994 (ISBN 0-387-94258-0) and a third edition in 2021 (ISBN 978-3030738389).