Georg Cantor

Georg Cantor

male, deceased (1918)
mathematics, transfinite number, Lutheran, set theory, Finitism, ordinal number…Ordinal
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia - January 6, 1918, Halle, Germany) was a German mathematician. He is...
Alexander S. Kechris

Alexander S. Kechris

male (Pasadena, California, United States)
Logician, mathematician, Ordinal, Countable, greek, American
Alexander S. (Alekos) Kechris is a descriptive set theorist at Caltech. He has made major contributions to the theory of Borel equivalence...

William Alvin Howard

male
Ph.D., University of Chicago, typed lambda-calculus, Curry-Howard correspondence, Ordinal, intuitionistic logic
William Alvin Howard (1926 -) is a proof theorist most well-known for his work demonstrating formal similarity between intuitionistic logic and the...
Frank Tenney Johnson

Frank Tenney Johnson

male, deceased (1939)
Death from meningitis, California artist, from the San Gabriel Valley, American West, yellowstone national park, cattle…Ordinal directions
Frank Tenney Johnson (26 June, 1874-1 January, 1939) was a painter of the american west, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which...
Jonny Bull

Jonny Bull

male
Rialto, retro, studio, Portuguese, Longboard, Portuguese language…Ordinal directions
Johnny Bull is the former guitarist and producer of Britpop band Rialto in the late 1990s. He is now an exponent of the retro school of surfing in...

Davey Payne

male
David 'Davey' Payne, English rock saxophonist, Ordinal directions, Willesden, From Essex, north west
David 'Davey' Payne (born 11 August 1944, in Willesden, North West London) is an English saxophonist best known as a member of Ian Dury's backing...
Gaisi Takeuti

Gaisi Takeuti

male, 83 years old
Princeton University, Logician, mathematician, princeton, Japanese, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign…ordinal diagrams, ordinal notation
Gaisi Takeuti is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in proof theory. After graduating from Tokyo University, he went to Princeton to...
Abram Bergson

Abram Bergson

male, deceased (2003)
Harvard University, Columbia University, Economist, welfare economics, American, pareto efficiency…ordinal utility
Abram Bergson, born Abram Burk (April 21, 1914, New York City - April 23, 2003), was an American economist. In a 1938 paper Bergson defined and...

Gerhard Hessenberg

male, deceased (1925)
mathematician, German, Geometer, projective geometry, connection, University of Berlin…Ordinal arithmetic
Gerhard Hessenberg was a German mathematician. He received his Ph.D from the University of Berlin in 1899 under the guidance of Hermann Schwarz and...