“get lost, or better would like to disappear from Germany.”
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Gottlob Frege
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic philosophy, concentrating on the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics. Though he was largely ignored during his lifetime, Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), and, to som…
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science · German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925) · logician · analytic philosopher · philosopher of language · university teacher · mathematician · philosopher · also Gottlob Frege, Frege
Born 8 November 1848 · Died 26 July 1925 · Q60028
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Houston Public Media: Engines of Our Ingenuity 2805: Gottlob Frege
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2016· 3 entries
Published “New particle formation in the free troposphere: A question of chemistry and timing” in Science — cited 405 times.
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Published “Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles” in Nature — cited 629 times.
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Published “The role of low-volatility organic compounds in initial particle growth in the atmosphere” in Nature — cited 656 times.
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1954· 1 entry
Dummett studied the transcriptions of Frege's Nachlass that had survived the Second World War, including fragments of a 1924 diary
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1925· 3 entries
Died 1925-07-26.
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“A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.”
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“Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.”
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1903· 1 entry
Showing that Russell's paradox could be derived from Frege's Basic Law V
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1892· 1 entry
“Gottlob Frege (1892). On Sense and Reference.”
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1873· 2 entries
Studied at University of Göttingen, Doctor (1871–1873).
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Frege attained his doctorate under Schering
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1871· 2 entries
Frege continued his studies in Göttingen, the leading university in mathematics in German-speaking territories, where he attended the lectures of Alfred Clebsch (1833–1872; analytic geometry), Ernst Christian Julius Sche
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Studied at University of Jena (1869–1871).
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1869· 1 entry
Studied at Grosse Stadtschule zu Wismar (1864–1869).
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1848· 2 entries
Born 1848-11-08.
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In Wismar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin (today part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northern Germany)
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