FOM: 20 Great Minds of the century
Peter Schuster
pschust at rz.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de
Wed Feb 28 05:04:27 EST 2001
Miguel A. Lerma wrote:
>Nobody thought of Bertrand Russell?
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Ditto for L.E.J. Brouwer. Foundations of mathematics
and mathematical logic would look fairly different
today without him, for instance, Wittgenstein's
later philosophy, and Goedel's work. A great mind
presumably does not have to coincide with an easy
personality.
Name: Peter M. Schuster
Position: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent
Instituition: University of Munich, Mathematics Department
Research interest: constructive mathematics
http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~pschust
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