Mathematician:John Charles Chenoweth McKinsey

Mathematician

American mathematician best known for his work on mathematical logic and game theory. He also made significant contributions to modal logic.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 30 April 1908 in Clinton County, Indiana
• Died: October 26, 1953 in Palo Alto

Publications

• 1934: A reduction in number of the postulates for C. I. Lewis' system of strict implication (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 40: pp. 425 – 427)

• 1935: On the independence of undefined ideas (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 41: pp. 291 – 297)

• 1936: Reducible Boolean functions (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 42: pp. 263 – 267)

• 1936: On Boolean functions of many variables (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 40: pp. 343 – 362)  www.jstor.org/stable/1989628

• 1948: A New Definition of Truth (Synthese Vol. 7: pp. 428 – 433)

• 1948: Some Theorems About the Sentential Calculi of Lewis and Heyting (J. Symb. Logic Vol. 13: pp. 1 – 15) (with Alfred Tarski)  www.jstor.org/stable/2268135

• 1952: Some notions and problems of game theory (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 58: pp. 591 – 611)

• 1952: Introduction to the Theory of Games

• 1953: Axiomatic foundations of classical particle mechanics (Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis Vol. 2: pp. 253 – 272)

• 1953: Philosophy and the axiomatic foundations of physics (Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Philosophy Vol. 6: pp. 49 – 53)

Also known as

Known informally as J.C.C. McKinsey or Chen McKinsey