Quick Facts About Gottlob Frege
- Born
- November 8, 1848
- Died
- July 26, 1925
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Logician
- Notable works
- Grundlagen der Arithmetik: a logico-mathematical enquiry into the concept of number.
- Known for
- Q330955, Frege's propositional calculus, The Foundations of Arithmetic, Begriffsschrift, principle of compositionality
- Spouse
- Margarete Katharina Sophia Anna Lieseberg
About 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 some extent, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) introduced his work to later generations of philosophers. Frege is widely considered to be one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most profound philosophers of mathematics ever.
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