Gottlob Frege - Wikipedia Frege is widely considered to be one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most profound philosophers of mathematics ever [8] His contributions include the development of modern logic in the Begriffsschrift and work in the foundations of mathematics
Gottlob Frege - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (b 1848, d 1925) was a German mathematician, logician, and philosopher who worked at the University of Jena Frege essentially reconceived the discipline of logic by constructing a formal system which, in effect, constituted the first ‘predicate calculus’
Frege, Gottlob | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy The German writer Arnold Frege, born in Wismar in 1852, may have been Frege’s younger brother, but this has not been confirmed Frege probably lived in Wismar until 1869; in the years from 1864-1869 he is known to have studied at the Gymnasium in Wismar
Frege – The Philosophy Room Frege and Margarete Lieseberg were wed, and they had a son through adoption On July 26, 1925, Frege passed away in Bad Kleinen In his first major work, Begriffsschrift (1879), Frege introduced the idea of a formal system of mathematical logic and provided the first illustration of such a system in the form of a propositional and predicate
Gottlob Freges Philosophy of Language: Foundations of . . . By introducing key concepts like the sense-reference distinction, Frege provided the philosophical tools necessary to explore the structure of language in a precise and rigorous way His theories laid the foundation for much of modern logic, philosophy of mathematics, and linguistic philosophy
Introduction to Frege | Department of Philosophy Gottlob Frege is often called the father of analytic philosophy, but the real reason to study him is not his historical significance, but, rather, that in his work one encounters a philosophical intelligence of the very first order