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Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Merrill Smullyan was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher.
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science · American mathematician and logician (1919–2017) · mathematician · pianist · philosopher · university teacher · computer scientist · magician · chess composer · writer · also Raymond Smullyan, Smullyan
Born 25 May 1919 · Died 6 February 2017 · Q441178
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2017· 1 entry
Died 2017-02-06.
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2001· 1 entry
Documentary filmmaker Tao Ruspoli made a film about Smullyan called "This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan"
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1959· 1 entry
Studied at Princeton University (1957–1959).
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1957· 1 entry
Demonstrating that Gödelian incompleteness applies to formal systems far more elementary than those considered in Kurt Gödel’s 1931 landmark paper
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1955· 2 entries
Based partly on courses he had taught at Dartmouth (although he had not taken them at Chicago)
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And his PhD from Princeton University in 1959
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1954· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chicago (1949–1954).
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1944· 2 entries
Studied at University of Chicago (1944–1944).
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Studied at University of Wisconsin–Madison (1943–1944).
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1931· 1 entry
Won a gold medal in the piano competition of the New York Music Week Association when he was aged 12 (the previous year he had won the silver medal)
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1919· 2 entries
In Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family
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Born 1919-05-25.
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