Died 1914-08-03.
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Louis Couturat
Louis Couturat was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Couturat was a pioneer of the constructed language Ido.
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science · French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist · philosopher · mathematician · linguist · historian of mathematics · university teacher · Idist · Esperantist · also Louis Couturat, Couturat
Born 17 January 1868 · Died 3 August 1914 · Q20724
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1907· 1 entry
Couturat helped found the constructed language Ido, an offshoot of Esperanto, and was Ido's principal advocate over the remainder of his life
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1905· 1 entry
Couturat published a work on logic and the foundations of mathematics (with an appendix on Kant's philosophy of mathematics) that was originally conceived as a translation of Russell's Principles of Mathematics
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1903· 1 entry
Couturat published much of that work in another large volume, his Opuscules et Fragments Inedits de Leibniz, containing many of the documents he had examined while writing La Logique
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1901· 1 entry
Published La Logique de Leibniz, a detailed study of Leibniz the logician, based on his examination of the huge Leibniz Nachlass in Hanover
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1895· 1 entry
Lectured in philosophy at the University of Toulouse and 1897 lectured in philosophy of mathematics at the University of Caen Normandy, taking a stand in favor of transfinite numbers
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1887· 1 entry
Entered École Normale Supérieure to study philosophy and mathematics
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-01-17.
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