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Author Menzler-Trott, Eckart

Title Logic's Lost Genius : the Life of Gerhard Gentzen
Published Providence : American Mathematical Society, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (466 pages)
Series History of Mathematics ; v. 33
History of mathematics.
Contents Cover; Title page; Books; Contents; Preface to the English edition; Introduction; Early youth and abitur; 1928-1938-Weimar Republic and National Socialism in peace. From the beginning of studies to the extension of the unscheduled assistantship for another year with effect from 1 October 1938; 1939-1942-From the beginning of the war to dismissal from the Wehrmacht and the wartime habilitation under Helmut Hasse; The fight over "German logic" from 1940 to 1945: A battle between amateurs; Recovery and docent position 1942 to 1944; Arrest, imprisonment, death and Nachlass; Conclusion
Tables of the life of Gerhard GentzenAppendix A: Gentzen and geometry, by C. Smoryński; Appendix B: Hilbert's programme, by C. Smoryński; Appendix C: Three lectures, by Gerhard Gentzen; Appendix D: From Hilbert's programme to Gentzen's programme, by Jan von Plato; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
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Subject Gentzen, Gerhard
SUBJECT Gentzen, Gerhard fast
Subject Mathematicians -- Germany -- Biography
Mathematicians
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781470438999
1470438992