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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
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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.
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Henri Poincaré English version PDF (653k)
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/poincare.pdf3 Mar 2021: a limitation that was in fact revealed in 1931 by the Austrian logician KURT GÖDEL.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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