At the beginning of the 20th century, the German mathematician David Hilbert (1862–1943) advocated an ambitious program to formulate a system of axioms and rules of inference that would encompass all ...

Programmers normally want to minimize the time their code takes to execute. But in 1962, the Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó posed the opposite problem. He asked: How long can a simple computer ...

Mark Colyvan: I think he's one of the great logicians; I think he belongs right up there with Aristotle, Descartes, but just in general philosophy, in mathematics, I think he ranks in any one of those ...