Philosophy of mathematics

3 lives in this collection worked in philosophy of mathematics, from 428 BC to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.

Often together with: foundations of mathematics. All fields

  • Plato428 BC–347 BC

    Athenian philosopher who founded the Academy, the centre of Greek mathematics in the fourth century BC, and whose Timaeus built a cosmos from ratios and the five regular solids.

    philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, cosmology

  • L. E. J. Brouwer1881–1966

    Founder of modern topology through the fixed point theorem and invariance of dimension, and creator of intuitionistic mathematics.

    topology, intuitionism, foundations of mathematics

  • Kurt Gödel1906–1978

    Logician who proved the completeness of first-order logic, the incompleteness of arithmetic, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis.

    mathematical logic, set theory, foundations of mathematics