Online Encyclopedia
List of logicians
A logician is a person, such has a philosopher or mathematician, whose topic of scholarly study is logic. The famous logicians are listed below in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surname).
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
B
- Stefan Banach (Poland, 1892- [1945]]
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Israel, 1915-1975)
- Jon Barwise (US, 1942 -2000)
- George Boole (Britain, 1815 - 1864)
- George Boolos (USA, 1940 - 1996)
- Nicolas Bourbaki (Pseudonym used by a cabal of French mathematicians)
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (Netherlands, 1881 - 1966)
C
- Georg Ferdinand Cantor (Germany, 1845 - 1918)
- Alonzo Church (USA, 1903 - 1995)
- Paul Joseph Cohen (USA, 1934 - )
D
- Augustus de Morgan (India, Britain 1806 - 1871)
E
F
- Solomon Feferman ( , - )
- Gottlob Frege (Germany, 1848 - 1925)
- Adolf Fraenkel (Germany, 1891 - 1965)
G
- Gerhard Gentzen (Germany, 1909 - 1945)
- Kurt Gödel, (Austria, USA, 1906 - 1978)
H
- Leon Henkin
- Jacques Herbrand (France)
- Arend Heyting (1898-1980)
- David Hilbert (Germany, 1862 - 1943)
J
K
- Stephen Cole Kleene (USA, 1909 - 1994)
- Saul Kripke (USA, 1940 - )
L
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Germany, 1646 - 1716)
- Clarence Irving Lewis
- Adolf Lindenbaum (Poland, 1904 - 1941/2)
- Leopold Löwenheim
- Jan Łukasiewicz
M
- Richard Montague (USA, 1930 - 1971)
- Saunders MacLane (USA, 1909 - )
N
- John von Neumann (Hungary, USA, 1903 - 1957)
O
P
- Giuseppe Peano (Italy, 1858 - 1932)
- Walter Pitts
- Dag Prawitz
- Hilary Putnam (, - )
Q
- W. V. Quine (USA, 1908 - 2000 )
R
- Frank Plumpton Ramsey (Britain, 1903 - 1930)
- Abraham Robinson (Israel, UK, Canada, USA, 1918-1974)
- J. Barkley Rosser (USA)
- Bertrand Russell (Britain, 1872 - 1970)
S
- Albert of Saxony
- Moses Schönfinkel (USSR)
- Saharon Shelah (Israel, 1945 - )
T
- Alfred Tarski (Poland, 1902 - 1983)
- Alan Turing (Britain, 1912 - 1954)
- Kazimierz Twardowski (Poland, 1866 - 1938)
U
V
W
- Alfred North Whitehead (Britain, 1861 - 1947)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austria, 1889 - 1951)
Y
Z
- Ernst Zermelo (Germany, 1871 - 1953)
External links
- The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/ -- Very complete list of detailed biographies. Many logicians are included.
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45