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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Georg Kreisel papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0136
Physical Description:
25.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1957-1984
Language of Material: English
Language of Material: English
Abstract: Correspondence with professional
colleagues, collaborators, students, and others, primarily from 1962 to 1984, lecture notes,
manuscripts and other writings.
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University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
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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. Kreisel died on March 1,
2015.
Correspondence with professional colleagues, collaborators, students, and others, primarily
from 1962 to 1984, lecture notes, manuscripts and other writings.
The materials are open for research use.
Georg Kreisel Papers (SCM0136). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Series 2, Box 22 is restricted for 75 years from date of creation.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Logic, Symbolic and Mathematical.
Kreisel, Georg
Kreisel, Georg
Stanford University. Department of Mathematics
Stanford University. Department of
Philosophy