Mathematician:Kurt Grelling

Mathematician

German logician and philosopher who was a member of the Berlin Circle.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 2 March 1886 in Berlin, German Empire
• Died: September 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland

Theorems and Definitions

• Grelling-Nelson Paradox (with Leonard Nelson) (also known as Grelling's Paradox, or Weyl's Paradox (mistaken attribution) for Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl)

Results named for Kurt Grelling can be found here.

Publications

• 1908: Bemerkungen zu den Paradoxien von Russell und Burali-Forti (with Leonard Nelson)
• 1910: Die Axiome der Arithmetik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Beziehungen zur Mengenlehre
• 1916: Anti-J'accuse
• 1937: Gibt es eine Gödelsche Antinomie?

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Kurt Grelling": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive