Bjarni Jónsson

Bjarni Jónsson (February 15, 1920 – September 30, 2016) was an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra, lattice theory, model theory and set theory. He was emeritus distinguished professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University and the honorary editor in chief of Algebra Universalis. He received his PhD in 1946 at UC Berkeley under supervision of Alfred Tarski.

Jónsson's Lemma as well as several mathematical objects are named after him, among them Jónsson algebras, ω-Jónsson functions, Jónsson cardinals, Jónsson terms, Jónsson–Tarski algebras and Jónsson–Tarski duality.

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

• Jónsson, Bjarni (1972), Topics in universal algebra, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 250, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0058648, MR 0345895

• Kirby A. Baker, Bjarni Jónsson's contributions in algebra, Algebra Universalis, September 1994, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp. 306–336.
• J. B. Nation, Jónsson's contributions to lattice theory, Algebra Universalis, September 1994, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp. 430–445.