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Kurt Gödel

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Austrian-American logician (1906–1978), generally regarded as the most important logician since Aristotle. Proved the completeness theorem for first-order logic at 23 and the incompleteness theorems at 25. Emigrated to Princeton in 1940 and became a close friend of Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study. Suffered from paranoid delusions later in life and died of self-imposed starvation, convinced his food was being poisoned.

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