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Born January 5, 1909 • Hartford • Connecticut
Died January 25, 1994 (aged 85) • Madison • Wisconsin • (Anniversary in 7 days)
Subjects Of Study recursion theory
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Dana Stewart Scott.
Dana Scott
American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
British mathematician and logician
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege
German mathematician and philosopher
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish logician and mathematician
George Boole
George Boole
British mathematician
De Morgan, Augustus
Augustus De Morgan
English mathematician and logician
Peano, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Peano
Italian mathematician
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap
German-American philosopher
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher and scientist
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel
American mathematician
Saul Kripke
Saul Kripke
American logician and philosopher
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
British-American mathematician and biochemist

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