Herbert Enderton

{{Short description|American mathematician (1936–2010)}}

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| name = Herbert B. Enderton

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| birth_name = Herbert Bruce Enderton

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|4|15}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|10|20|1936|4|15}}

| death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S.

| nationality = American

| fields = Mathematical Logic

| workplaces = UCLA

| alma_mater = Harvard University

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Herbert Bruce Enderton (April 15, 1936 – October 20, 2010){{cite journal|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201101/rtx110100070p.pdf|title=Deaths of AMS Members|publisher=AMS|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|volume=58|issue=1|date=January 2011}} was an American mathematician. He was a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at UCLA and a former member of the faculties of Mathematics and of Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Enderton also contributed to recursion theory, the theory of definability, models of analysis, computational complexity, and the history of logic.{{cite web|url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/rzach/blog/2010/10/herbert-b-enderton-1936-2010.html|title=Herbert B. Enderton, 1936-2010|author=Richard Zach|publisher=University of Calgary|date=October 28, 2010|access-date=February 9, 2011}}

He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1962.{{cite web |url=https://www.math.ucla.edu/people/pages/hbe.shtml|title=UCLA Department of Mathematics|publisher=UCLA|access-date=February 9, 2011}} He was a member of the American Mathematical Society from 1961 until his death.