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April 28, 1906
Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (died 1978)
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Friedrich Gödel was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel profoundly influenced scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, building on earlier work by Frege, Richard Dedekind, and Georg Cantor.