frege, gottlob

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frege, gottlob - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Gottlob Frege
  Frege, Gottlob
  
     <person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory>
     (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and
     more solid foundation.  He purged mathematics of mistaken,
     sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras.  Mathematics
     was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
  
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     (1997-07-14)