Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

male, deceased (1970)
agnostic, philosopher, Philosopher of metaphysics, freedom of thought, activist, defined Erdős–Bacon number…mathematicallogic
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,...
Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege

male, deceased (1925)
German philosopher, from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 20th-century philosophy, Philosopher of language, Logician, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege…mathematicallogic, logic
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German mathematician who became a logician and philosopher. He helped found both modern mathematical logic and...
David Hilbert

David Hilbert

male, deceased (1943)
Relativists, craters of the Moon named after them, German native of East Prussia, Functional Analysis, Mathematical analyst, contributor to general relativity…mathematicallogic
David Hilbert was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th...
Alfred Tarski

Alfred Tarski

male, deceased (1983)
Polish-American, mathematical model, University of California, Berkeley, Warsaw University alumni, model, logic…algebraic logic, mathematicallogic
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who sp...
Solomon Feferman

Solomon Feferman

male, 80 years old
Rolf Schock Prize laureate, professor, Erdős number 2, University of California, Berkeley, American, Stanford University faculty…mathematicallogic
Solomon Feferman (b. December 13, 1928) is an American philosopher and mathematician with major works in mathematical logic. He was born in New...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
Turing Award laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient, mathematicallogic, Turing Award
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
Jean van Heijenoort

Jean van Heijenoort

male, deceased (1986)
Logician, Trotskyist, French, murdered, American, politician…mathematicallogic
Jean Louis Maxime Van Heijenoort (pronounced "highenort") (July 23 1912, Creil France - March 29 1986, Mexico City) was a pioneer historian of...
Dana Scott

Dana Scott

male, 77 years old
Turing Award laureate, University of California, Berkeley faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni, Rolf Schock Prize laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Erdős number 2…mathematicallogic, Modal Logic
Dana Stewart Scott (born 1932) is the emeritus "Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic" at Carnegie...
John Allen Paulos

John Allen Paulos

male
numeracy, mathematical literacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Temple University, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, probability theory…mathematicallogic
John Allen Paulos is an extensively kudized author, popular public speaker , and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com ( archived or current , the text...
Ernest Nagel

Ernest Nagel

male, deceased (1985)
Columbia University, mathematicallogic, Carl Hempel, Morris Cohen, Journal of Philosophy, Gödel's incompleteness theorems…An Introduction to Logic and the Scientific Method, Journal of Symbolic Logic
Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 - September 22, 1985) was among the most important philosophers of science of his time. Nagel was born in Prague...