Kurt Schütte
German mathematician (1909-1998) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 88
Kurt Schütte was a German mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman-Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him.
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About this person
He was the doctoral advisor of 16 students, including Wolfgang Bibel, Wolfgang Maaß, Wolfram Pohlers, and Martin Wirsing. He made important contributions to the proof theory of systems with the ω-rule, and made progress towards solving Takeuti's conjecture.
Country
Germany
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1909 to 1998 · aged 88
