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Logic’s Lost Genius: The Life of Gerhard Gentzen
About this Title
Eckart Menzler-Trott, , Munich, Germany. Translated by Craig Smoryński and Edward Griffor
Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year:
2007; Volume 33
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2812-9 (print); 978-1-4704-3899-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/033
MathSciNet review: MR2363580
MSC: Primary 01A60; Secondary 01A70, 03-03
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Early youth and abitur
- 1928-1938—Weimar Republic and National Socialism in peace. From the beginning of studies to the extension of the unscheduled assistantship for another year with effect from 1 October 1938
- 1939-1942—From the beginning of the war to dismissal from the Wehrmacht and the wartime habilitation under Helmut Hasse
- The fight over “German logic” from 1940 to 1945: A battle between amateurs
- Recovery and docent position 1942 to 1944
- Arrest, imprisonment, death and Nachlass
- Conclusion
- Tables of the life of Gerhard Gentzen
- Appendix A. Gentzen and geometry, by C. Smoryński
- Appendix B. Hilbert’s programme, by C. Smoryński
- Appendix C. Three lectures, by Gerhard Gentzen
- Appendix D. From Hilbert’s programme to Gentzen’s programme, by Jan von Plato