Kurt Schütte
German mathematician
Intro | German mathematician | |
Places | Germany | |
was | Mathematician Educator | |
Work field | Academia Mathematics | |
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Birth | 14 October 1909, Salzwedel | |
Death | 18 August 1998Munich (aged 88 years) | |
Star sign | Libra |
Kurt Schütte (14 October 1909, Salzwedel – 18 August 1998, Munich) was a German mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. He was the doctoral advisor of 16 students, including Wolfgang Bibel, Wolfgang Maaß, Wolfram Pohlers, and Martin Wirsing.