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Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician whose work influenced many branches of modern
mathematics, especially harmonic analysis, probability, set theory,
information theory, and number theory. A man of broad culture, with
interests in technology, history, and education, he played an active
role in the reform of education in the USSR. [ more...
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Kurt Gödel
Mathematician, logician, and author of Gödel's proof, which states
that within any rigidly logical mathematical system there are propositions
(or questions) that cannot be proved or disproved on the basis of
the axioms within that system and that, therefore, it is uncertain
that the basic axioms of arithmetic. [ more...
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