Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel

male, deceased (1978)
Logician, incompleteness theorems, mathematician, mathematics, philosopher, Gödel numbering…continuumhypothesis
Kurt Gödel (April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American ma...
Paul Cohen

Paul Cohen

male, deceased (2007)
Littlewood's conjecture, conjecture of Littlewood, National Medal of Science, University of London, Set theorist, Jewish person…continuumhypothesis
Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 - March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey into a Jewish family and...
Ernst Zermelo

Ernst Zermelo

male, deceased (1953)
Alumni of Freiburg University, set theory, philosopher, physics, mathematics, freiburg…continuumhypothesis
Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo was a German mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics and hence on...
Saharon Shelah

Saharon Shelah

male, 64 years old
Jewish person, set theory, Israeli, mathematician, cardinal, mathematics…continuumhypothesis
Saharon Shelah (born July 3, 1945 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
W. Hugh Woodin

W. Hugh Woodin

male, 54 years old
Logician, inner model, Omega-logic, William Hugh Woodin, continuumhypothesis, determinacy
William Hugh Woodin is a set theorist at University of California, Berkeley. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models...

Wacław Sierpiński

male, deceased (1969)
Warsaw University alumni, Erdős number 2, Polish Academy of Sciences, polish, Polish Academy of Learning, fractal…continuumhypothesis
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński, a Polish mathematician, was born and died in Warsaw. He was known for outstanding contributions to set theory (r...
Rami Grossberg

Rami Grossberg

male
Israeli, mathematician, Carnegie Mellon University faculty, conjecture, Carnegie Mellon University, mathematics…continuumhypothesis, weak continuum hypothesis
Rami Grossberg is an associate professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University and a leading researcher in model theory. Grossberg's recent...