gottlob frege

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Gottlob Frege
Frege, Gottlob

   <person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory>
   (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and
   more solid foundation.  He purged mathematics of mistaken,
   sloppy reasoning and the influence of {Pythagoras}.
   Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of {formal logic}.

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   (1997-07-14)