Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel
Gödel around 1926
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a logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history,
Born
Kurt Friedrich Gödel April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic )
Died
January 14, 1978 (aged 71) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Known for
Gödel's incompleteness theorems Gödel's completeness theorem Gödel's constructible universe Gödel metric ( closed timelike curve ) Gödel logic Gödel–Dummett logic Gödel's β function Gödel numbering Gödel
Fields
Mathematics, mathematical logic, analytic philosophy, physics
Alma mater
University of Vienna
Awards
Albert Einstein Award (1951) ForMemRS (1968) National Medal of Science (1974)
Institutions
Institute for Advanced Study
Spouse(s)
Adele Nimbursky ( m. 1938)
adultbasic
Austria
Citizenship
Czechoslovak Austrian American
Doctoral advisor
Hans Hahn
era
1800+
Thesis
Über die Vollständigkeit des Logikkalküls (On the Completeness of the Calculus of Logic) (1929)