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Kurt Gödel

Austrian-american logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978).

Born April 28th, 1906 in Brno. [ref]

Died January 14th, 1978 at 71 years old in Princeton (starvation). [ref]

Occupations
computer scientist, mathematician, philosopher, physicist, university teacher
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