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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Gottlob Frege
Born: November 8, 1848
Died: July 26, 1925 (aged 76)
Bio: Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher considered to be one of the founders of modern logic. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics.
Known for:
- The Foundations of Arithmetic (1884)
- The Frege reader
- Posthumous writings
- Gottlob Frege: Basic Laws of Arithmetic
- Conceptual notation, and related articles
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