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Call Number: SC0136
Creator:
Kreisel, Georg, 1923-
Title: Georg Kreisel papers
Dates: 1957-1984
Physical Description:
25.5 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence with professional colleagues, collaborators,
students, and others, primarily from 1962 to 1984, lecture notes, manuscripts and other
writings.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Restricted: For more information, contact the archivist.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
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Georg Kreisel Papers (SCM0136). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics at Stanford University. Born in
Graz, Austria, Kreisel received his B.A. degree in 1944 and his M.A. degree in 1947,
both from Cambridge University. He served at Lecturer in Mathematics at the University
of Reading from 1949 to 1954, 1957 to 1958 and 1959 to 1960. He was a member of the
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 1955 to 1957, and Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Paris from 1960 to 1964. He first came to Stanford
University in 1958 as a Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics and later as
Visiting Professor of Logic and Mathematics. Since 1964, he has held a joint appointment
in Stanford's departments of Mathematics and Philosophy. In 1966, he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society.
Correspondence with professional colleagues, collaborators, students, and others,
primarily from 1962 to 1984, lecture notes, manuscripts and other writings.
Kreisel, Georg 1923-
Stanford University. Dept. of Mathematics
Stanford University. Dept. of Philosophy.
Logic, Symbolic and Mathematical.
Mathematics--philosophy.