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51. Kilmister presidential - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Kilmister_presidential/

    7 Mar 2023: The bet was called in 1940. With one exception, everyone agreed that Polya had won; but the exception was Kurt Gödel, This must give us some food for thought. ... construction of the real numbers contains subtleties that troubled such an acute intellect

52. Philipp Furtwängler (1869 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Furtwangler/

    1 Jun 2023: It was Furtwängler's lectures which turned Kurt Gödel from physics to mathematics. ... G Moore, The Incomplete Gödel, American Scientist (Sep-Oct 2005). Philipp Furtwängler, Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 Vol.

53. Henri Poincaré English version PDF (653k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/poincare.pdf

    3 Mar 2021: a limitation that was in fact revealed in 1931 by the Austrian logician KURT GÖDEL.

54. Hewitt autobiography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hewitt_autobiography/

    7 Mar 2023: There was a galaxy of eminences at the Institute for Advanced Study: Albert Einstein, Carl Ludwig Siegel, John von Neumann (who was around only part of the time) Hermann Weyl, Kurt ... Gödel, James W Alexander, Marston Morse.

55. Karl Menger (1902 - 1985) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Menger/

    7 Mar 2023: Before Menger went to the United States, Kurt Gödel had joined his Mathematical Colloquium. ... He arranged a visit by Gödel to Notre Dame but failed to persuade him to accept a post there.

56. Abraham Gelbart (1911 - 1994) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gelbart/

    2 Dec 2023: Born. 2 December 1911. Paterson, New Jersey, USA. Died. 7 September 1994. Manhattan, New York, USA. Summary. Abe Gelbart was an American mathematician who worked in complex function theory. . View three larger pictures. Abraham Gelbart was known to

57. Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wirtinger/

    25 Aug 2023: When Kurt Reidemeister was appointed as associate professor of geometry at the University of Vienna in 1923 he became a colleague of Wirtinger.

58. Arnold Scholz (1904 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Scholz_Arnold/

    7 Mar 2023: However, it was Zermelo with whom Scholz formed a close friendship and he tried hard to arrange a meeting between Zermelo and Kurt Gödel at the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung meeting held ... 512. O Taussky-Todd, Remembrances of Kurt Gödel,

59. Hilbert reviews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hilbert_books/

    7 Mar 2023: The publication has been delayed to some extent by the necessity of taking into account the recent results of Gödel, and as a consequence the book is issued in two parts, ... It also explains the dedication of the book to Kurt Otto Friedrichs as "a

60. Edmund Hlawka (1916 - 2009) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hlawka/

    7 Mar 2023: He attended mathematics courses by, among others,and Nikolaus Hofreiter (1904-1990). He took a course on mathematical logic given by Kurt Gödel and was taught theoretical physics by Hans Thirring