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Sigekatu Kuroda (1905 - 1972) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kuroda/7 Mar 2023: the visit, he wrote to Gödel on 16 June of that year [7]:-. ... Comp. 24 (110) (1970), 491-493. M van Atten, Essays on Gödel's Reception of Leibniz, Husserl, and Brouwer (Springer 2015).
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László Kalmár (1905 - 1976) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kalmar/7 Mar 2023: Born. 27 March 1905. Edde (N of Kaposvar), Hungary. Died. 2 August 1976. Mátraháza, Hungary. Summary. László Kalmár worked on mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. He was ackowledged as the leader of Hungarian mathematical logic.
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Roger Penrose (1931 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Penrose/30 Dec 2023: I learnt about Turing machines and Gödel's theorem. The first major influence prompting his interest in physics had been Dennis Sciama, a physicist friend of his brother.
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Warwick Sawyer (1911 - 2008) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sawyer/11 Jan 2024: Born. 5 April 1911. St Ives, Huntingdonshire, (now Cambridgeshire) England. Died. 15 February 2008. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Summary. W W Sawyer was an English-born mathematician who is best known for his inspiring books on elementary mathematics.
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Gaston Julia (1893 - 1978) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Julia/10 Dec 2023: Seminars were organised in Berlin in 1925 to study Julia's work on iteration and participants includedand Kurt Reidemeister.
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Ernst Schröder (1841 - 1902) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schroder/18 Jan 2024: I Grattan-Guinness, The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940 : Logics, Set Theories and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor Through Russell to Gödel (Princeton University Press, 2000).
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José Escobar (1954 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Escobar/22 Jan 2024: for. R. P. 2. mathbb{R}P{2}. RP2. Let us note that the Moser referred to in this quote is Jürgen Kurt Moser.
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Theodor Reye (1838 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Reye/7 Mar 2023: In Zürich, Reye was taught by Kurt Culmann (1821-1881), who had held the Chair of Engineering Sciences since the Polytechnikum was founded in 1855. ... In Zürich he became a colleague of Kurt Culmann, who had taught him as an undergraduate, and it was
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Ludwig Faddeev (1934 - 2017) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Faddeev_Ludwig/28 Feb 2024: Advised by Ladyzhenskaya, he read first a paper by Norman Levinson followed by Kurt Friedrichs' book Mathematical aspects of the quantum theory of fields (1951) in session 1954-55 and took
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Jerzy Łoś (1920 - 1998) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Los/23 Mar 2023: From 1954 his work on the foundations of mathematics took him towards algebra with papers such as Sur le théorème de Gödel pour les théories indénombrables. ... contains a careful look at Gödel's completeness theorem as well as some related new