Mathematician:Ernest Nagel

Mathematician
American philosopher of science, aligned with the logical positivist movement.

Nationality
American, of Slovakian (then Austria-Hungarian) origin

History

 * Born: November 16, 1901 in Vágújhely, Austria-Hungary (now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, in Slovakia)
 * Died: September 20, 1985 in New York

Publications

 * 1930: On the Logic of Measurement
 * 1934: An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method (with M. R. Cohen)
 * 1939: The Formation of Modern Conceptions of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry
 * 1939: Principles of the Theory of Probability
 * 1949: The Meaning of Reduction in the Natural Sciences
 * 1954: Sovereign Reason
 * 1957: Logic without Metaphysics
 * 1958: Gödel's Proof (with )
 * 1961: The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation
 * 1971: Observation and Theory in Science (with others)
 * 1979: Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science