Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a German-Austrian logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel had an immense effect upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when others such as Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and David Hilbert were analyzing the use of logic and set theory to understand the foundations of mathematics pioneered by Georg Cantor.
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28 April 1906 Brno, Czech Republic
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14 January 1978 (aged 71) Princeton, New Jersey
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