List of logicians

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

A logician is a person, such as a philosopher or mathematician, whose topic of scholarly study is logic. The famous logicians are listed below in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surname).

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


A

  • Wilhelm Ackermann (Germany, 1896 - 1962)
  • Alan Ross Anderson (USA, 1924 - 1972)
  • Aristotle (Greece, 384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)

B

  • Stefan Banach (Poland, 1892 - 1945)
  • Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Israel, 1915 - 1975)
  • Jon Barwise (USA, 1942 - 2000)
  • Nuel Belnap (1931 - )
  • Johan van Benthem (Netherlands, 1949 -)
  • Evert Willem Beth (Netherlands, 1908 - 1964)
  • George Boole (UK, 1815 - 1864)
  • George Boolos (USA, 1940 - 1996)
  • Nicolas Bourbaki (Pseudonym used by a group of French mathematicians)
  • Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (Netherlands, 1881 - 1966)

C

  • Rudolf Carnap (Germany, 1891 - 1970)
  • Georg Ferdinand Cantor (Germany, 1845 - 1918)
  • Lewis Carroll (UK, 1832 - 1898)
  • Alonzo Church (USA, 1903 - 1995)
  • Paul Joseph Cohen (USA, 1934 - )
  • Newton da Costa (Brazil, 1929 - )
  • Haskell Curry (USA, 1900 - 1982)

D

  • Augustus De Morgan (UK, 1806 - 1871)
  • Michael A. E. Dummett (1925 - )
  • John Duns Scotus (England, c. 1266-1308)

E

F

  • Solomon Feferman
  • Hartry Field
  • Adolf Fraenkel (Germany, 1891 - 1965)
  • Gottlob Frege (Germany, 1848 - 1925)
  • Harvey Friedman

G

  • L.T.F. Gamut (collective pseudonym used by a group of Dutch logicians)
  • Gerhard Gentzen (Germany, 1909 - 1945)
  • Aksapada Gautama (India, c. 6th century B.C. - 5th century B.C.)
  • Joseph Diaz Gergonne (France, 1771 - 1859)
  • Jean-Yves Girard
  • Kurt Gödel (Austria, USA, 1906 - 1978)

H

  • Susan Haack (UK, 1945 - )
  • Leon Henkin
  • Jacques Herbrand (France)
  • Arend Heyting (1898 - 1980)
  • David Hilbert (Germany, 1862 - 1943)
  • Jaakko Hintikka (Finland, 1929 - )
  • Alfred Horn (USA, 1918 - 2001)

J

  • Stanisław Jaśkowski (Poland, 1906–1935)
  • William Stanley Jevons (England, 1835 – 1882)

K

  • David Kaplan (USA, 1933 - )
  • Alexander S. Kechris
  • Stephen Cole Kleene (USA, 1909 - 1994)
  • Saul Kripke (USA, 1940 - )

L

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Germany, 1646 - 1716)
  • Clarence Irving Lewis (USA, 1883 - 1964)
  • David Lewis (USA, 1941 - 2001)
  • Adolf Lindenbaum (Poland, 1904 - 1941)
  • Rudolf Hermann Lotze (Germany 1817 - 1881)
  • Leopold Löwenheim (Germany, 1878 - 1957)
  • Jan Łukasiewicz (Poland, 1878 - 1956)

M

  • Hugh MacColl (Scotland 1837 - 1909)
  • Saunders MacLane (USA, 1909 - )
  • Ruth Barcan Marcus (USA, 1921 - )
  • Donald A. Martin
  • C. A. Meredith (Ireland, 1904 - 1976)
  • Richard Montague (USA, 1930 - 1971)
  • Yiannis N. Moschovakis

N

  • John von Neumann (Hungary, USA, 1903 - 1957)

O

P

  • Charles Sanders Peirce (USA, 1839 - 1914)
  • Giuseppe Peano (Italy, 1858 - 1932)
  • Walter Pitts (USA, 1923 - 1969)
  • Emil Leon Post (USA, 1897 - 1954)
  • Dag Prawitz (Sweden, 1936 - )
  • Mojżesz Presburger (Poland 1904 -1943)
  • Arthur Prior (New Zealand, 1914 - 1969)
  • Hilary Putnam (USA, 1926 - )

Q

  • W. V. Quine (USA, 1908 - 2000 )

R

  • Frank Plumpton Ramsey (UK, 1903 - 1930)
  • Abraham Robinson (Israel, UK, Canada, USA, 1918 - 1974)
  • J. Barkley Rosser (USA, 1907 - 1989)
  • Richard Routley (New Zealand, 1935 - 1996)
  • Bertrand Russell (UK, 1872 - 1970)

S

  • Albert of Saxony (Germany, c. 1316 - 1390)
  • Rolf Schock (b. France, 1933 - 1986)
  • Moses Schönfinkel (USSR, 1889 - 1942)
  • Saharon Shelah (Israel, 1945 - )
  • Christoph von Sigwart (Germany 1830 - 1894)
  • Raymond Smullyan (USA, 1919 - )
  • Peter of Spain
  • John R. Steel

T

  • Alfred Tarski (Poland, 1902 - 1983)
  • Anne Sjerp Troelstra (Netherlands, 1939 - )
  • Alan Turing (UK, 1912 - 1954)
  • Kazimierz Twardowski (Poland, 1866 - 1938)

U

V

  • John Venn (England, 1834 - 1923)

W

Y

Z

  • Lotfi Zadeh (Azerbaijan/USA, 1921 - )
  • Ernst Zermelo (Germany, 1871 - 1953)

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