13 Facts About Donald Kalish

Donald Kalish was an American logician, educator, and anti-war activist.

Donald Kalish was perhaps best known for his outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam and later, his opposition to US military involvement in Nicaragua and Grenada.

Donald Kalish was a founder of the Concerned Faculty of UCLA.

Donald Kalish served as a member of the University Committee on Vietnam, and as vice-chairman of Peace Action Council, Los Angeles.

Donald Kalish is known for his leadership role with the Peace Action Council in a 1967 protest against President Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policies at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, which brought out 10,000 people.

Donald Kalish was an organizer of the 1967 March on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War and his activities were prominently chronicled in Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night.

In 1967, Donald Kalish signed a letter declaring his intention to refuse to pay taxes in protest against the US war against Vietnam, and urging other people to take this stand.

Donald Kalish was an expert on logic, set theory and the history of both subjects.

Donald Kalish was a first-rate and devoted teacher, who taught with precision, compassion and enthusiasm.

Donald Kalish was the proverbial "teacher's teacher," having the rare ability of being able to make even the most complex and arcane concepts readily comprehensible to his students.

Donald Kalish regularly gave his students his home phone number with the instruction that if they ever wanted to discuss an assignment, to call him anytime, day or night.

The proof system is set forth in detail in Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning by Richard Montague and Donald Kalish, which was published in 1964.

Donald Kalish published a second edition of the book in 1980 with Gary Mar Since the late 1960s, these books have been used as a textbook at many universities, including UCLA.