Kurt G Del Austrian American Mathematician And Philosopher Born 1906 - January 14 in History | This Day Story

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January 14, 1978

Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher (born 1906)

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.

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