Mathematician:Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege

Mathematican

German philosopher, logician, and mathematician, one of the founders of modern logic.

Made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 8 November 1848, Wismar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
• Died: 26 July 1925, Bad Kleinen, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Frege Set Theory

Definitions of concepts named for Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege can be found here.

Publications

• 1879: Begriffsschrift

• 1884: Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik
  • 1950: The Foundations of Arithmetic (translation by J.L. Austin of Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik)
  • 1953: The Foundations of Arithmetic, 2nd ed. (translation by J.L. Austin of Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik)

• 1893: Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Band I
• 1903: Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Band II

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1946: Alfred Tarski: Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S \text{II}.7$: Sentential Calculus (footnote)
• 1951: Willard Van Orman Quine: Mathematical Logic (revised ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Introduction
• 1959: A.H. Basson and D.J. O'Connor: Introduction to Symbolic Logic (3rd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text I$ Introductory: $1$. Symbolic Logic and Classical Logic
• 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob (1848-1925)
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob (1848-1925)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob (1848-1925)
• 2010: Raymond M. Smullyan and Melvin Fitting: Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (revised ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$: General Background: $\S 7$ Frege set theory
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Frege, (Friedrich Ludwig) Gottlob (1848-1925)