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Kurt Schütte

German mathematician
Kurt Schütte
Born(1909-10-14)14 October 1909
Died18 August 1998(1998-08-18) (aged 88)
Known forFeferman–Schütte ordinal
Scientific career
Thesis Untersuchungen zum Entscheidungsproblem der mathematischen Logik  (1934)
Doctoral advisorDavid Hilbert

Kurt Schütte (14 October 1909, Salzwedel – 18 August 1998, Munich) 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. He was the doctoral advisor of 16 students, including Wolfgang Bibel, Wolfgang Maaß, Wolfram Pohlers, and Martin Wirsing.

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  1. ^ Feferman, Solomon (1979). "Review: Proof theory, by Kurt Schütte" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1 (1): 224–228. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1979-14562-2.

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