George Boolos
George Stephen Boolos (/ˈbuːloʊs/; 4 September 1940 – 27 May 1996) was an American philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
George Boolos | |
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| Born | 4 September 1940 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 27 May 1996 (aged 55) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Princeton University (A.B.) Oxford University MIT (PhD, 1966) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Thesis | The Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hilary Putnam |
Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical logic |
Notable ideas | Hume's principle Nonfirstorderizability The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever |
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