Mathematician:Hilary Whitehall Putnam

Mathematician
American mathematician and philosopher, who has written significantly on various subjects, such as the philosophy of logic and language acquisition.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 31 July 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
 * Died: 13 March 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Rietdijk-Putnam Argument (with )


 * MRDP Theorem (with, and )


 * Davis-Putnam Algorithm (with )


 * DPLL algorithm (with, and )

Publications

 * 1957: The Definition of Universal Turing Machine (with )
 * 1960: Exact separation of recursively enumerable sets within theories (with )
 * 1961: The Decision Problem for Exponential Diophantine Equations (with and )
 * 1967: The "Innateness Hypothesis" and Explanatory Models in Linguistics
 * 1971: Philosophy of Logic
 * 1975: Mathematics, Matter and Method. Philosophical Papers, vol. 1
 * 1975: Mind, Language and Reality. Philosophical Papers, vol. 2
 * 1978: Meaning and the Moral Sciences
 * 1981: Reason, Truth, and History
 * 1983: Realism and Reason. Philosophical Papers, vol. 3.
 * 1987: The Many Faces of Realism
 * 1988: Representation and Reality
 * 1992: Renewing Philosophy
 * 1995: Pragmatism: An Open Question
 * 1999: The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World
 * 2001: Enlightenment and Pragmatism
 * 2002: The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
 * 2002: Ethics Without Ontology