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Encyclopedia > Leonard Nelson

Leonard Nelson (July 11, 1882, Berlin - October 29, 1927, Göttingen) was a German mathematician and philosopher. He was part of the Neo-Friesian School and a friend of the mathematician David Hilbert. During his doctorate at Georg August University of Göttingen he was advised by Julius Baumann, and his dissertation was titled Jakob Friedrich Fries und seine jüngsten Kritiker. July 11 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... October 29 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Landmark Gänseliesel fountain at the main market Göttingen (   listen?) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... David Hilbert David Hilbert (January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943) was a German mathematician born in Wehlau, near Königsberg, Prussia (now Znamensk, near Kaliningrad, Russia) who is recognized as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... The Georg-August University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, often called the Georgia Augusta) was founded in 1734 by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, and opened in 1737. ...


He was an insomniac and died at a young age from pneumonia. Insomniac can mean: A person who suffers from insomnia. ... Pneumonia (the ancient Greek word for lungs) is defined as an inflammation, usually caused by infection, involving the alveoli of the lungs. ...


See also

  • Grelling-Nelson paradox

The Grelling-Nelson paradox is a semantic paradox formulated in 1908 by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson and sometimes mistakenly attributed to German philosopher and mathematician Hermann Weyl. ...

External link

  • Biography from the Friesian School site [1]
  • Biography from the SFCP site [2]

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AllRefer.com - Leonard Nelson (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia (267 words)
On the faculty of the Univ. of GOttingen from 1909, he was interested in the use of critical method to establish a scientific foundation for philosophy and in the systematic development of philosophical ethics.
Nelson viewed Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as a treatise on method, and he further developed the thought of Jakob Friedrich Fries, the only post-Kantian who had adopted that approach.
Nelson's work in the area of ethics proceeded from a faith in systematic, critical reasoning, on which the values of his system are based.
Leonard Nelson (1461 words)
Leonard Nelson, described by Karl Popper as an "outstanding personality," produced a great quantity of work (collected in the nine volumes of the Gesammelte Schriften) in a tragically short life.
Nelson recognized the important parallel between Hilbert's conception of meta-mathematics and Fries' distinction between critique and metaphysics.
Nelson carried out this research programme in his ethics but his untimely death prevented a systematic presentation of his natural philosophy and his doctrine of method.
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