List of logicians

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

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)
• Aristotle (Greece, 384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)

B

• Stefan Banach (Poland, 1892- [1945]]
• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Israel, 1915-1975)
• George Boole (Britain, 1815 - 1864)
• George Boolos (USA, 1940 - 1996)
• Nicolas Bourbaki (Pseudonym used by a cabal of French mathematicians)
• Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (Netherlands, 1881 - 1966)

C

• Georg Ferdinand Cantor (Germany, 1845 - 1918)
• Alonzo Church (USA, 1903 - 1995)
• Paul Joseph Cohen (USA, 1934 - )

D

• Augustus de Morgan (India, Britain 1806 - 1871)

E

F

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

G

• Gerhard Gentzen (Germany, 1909 - 1945)
• Kurt Gödel, (Austria, USA, 1906 - 1978)

H

• Leon Henkin
• Jacques Herbrand (France)
• Arend Heyting (1898-1980)
• David Hilbert (Germany, 1862 - 1943)

J

K

• Stephen Cole Kleene (USA, 1909 - 1994)
• Saul Kripke (USA, 1940 - )

L

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Germany, 1646 - 1716)
• Clarence Irving Lewis
• Leopold Löwenheim
• Jan Łukasiewicz

M

• Richard Montague (USA, 1930 - 1971)
• Saunders MacLane (USA, 1909 - )

N

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

O

P

• Giuseppe Peano (Italy, 1858 - 1932)
• Walter Pitts
• Hilary Putnam (, - )

Q

• W. V. Quine (USA, 1908 - 2000 )

R

• Frank Plumpton Ramsey (Britain, 1903 - 1930)
• Abraham Robinson (Israel, UK, Canada, USA, 1918-1974)
• J. Barkley Rosser (USA)
• Bertrand Russell (Britain, 1872 - 1970)

S

• Moses Schönfinkel (USSR)
• Saharon Shelah (Israel, 1945 - )

T

• Alfred Tarski (Poland, 1902 - 1983)

U

V

W

• Alfred North Whitehead (Britain, 1861 - 1947)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austria, 1889 - 1951)

Y

Z

• Ernst Zermelo (Germany, 1871 - 1953)

External links

• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/ -- Very complete list of detailed biographies. Many logicians are included.