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Edward Nelson was born on 4 May, 1932 in Decatur, Georgia, is an American mathematician. Discover Edward Nelson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 4 May 1932
Birthday 4 May
Birthplace Decatur, Georgia
Date of death 10 September, 2014
Died Place Princeton, New Jersey
Nationality Georgia

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1932

Edward Nelson (May 4, 1932 – September 10, 2014) was an American mathematician.

He was professor in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University.

He was known for his work on mathematical physics and mathematical logic.

In mathematical logic, he was noted especially for his internal set theory, and views on ultrafinitism and the consistency of arithmetic.

In philosophy of mathematics he advocated the view of formalism rather than platonism or intuitionism.

He also wrote on the relationship between religion and mathematics.

Edward Nelson was born in Decatur, Georgia, in 1932.

He spent his early childhood in Rome where his father worked for the Italian YMCA.

At the advent of World War II, Nelson moved with his mother to New York City, where he attended high school at the Bronx High School of Science.

His father, who spoke fluent Russian, stayed in St. Petersburg in connection with issues related to prisoners of war.

After the war, his family returned to Italy and he attended the Liceo Scientifico Giovanni Verga in Rome.

1950

In 1950, Nelson formulated a popular variant of the four color problem: What is the chromatic number, denoted \chi, of the plane?

In more detail, what is the smallest number of colors sufficient for coloring the points of the Euclidean plane such that no two points of the same color are unit distance apart?

We know by simple arguments that 4 ≤ χ ≤ 7.

1955

He received his Ph.D. in 1955 from the University of Chicago, where he worked with Irving Segal.

1956

He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1956 to 1959.

1959

He held a position at Princeton University starting in 1959, attaining the rank of professor there in 1964 and retiring in 2013.

1960

The problem was introduced to a wide mathematical audience by Martin Gardner in his October 1960 Mathematical Games column.

The chromatic number problem, also now known as the Hadwiger–Nelson problem, was a favorite of Paul Erdős, who mentioned it frequently in his problems lectures.

2011

In September 2011, Nelson announced that he had proved that Peano arithmetic was logically inconsistent.

An error was found in the proof by Terence Tao, and Nelson retracted the claim.

2012

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

2014

He died in Princeton, New Jersey, on September 10, 2014.

Nelson made contributions to the theory of infinite-dimensional group representations, the mathematical treatment of quantum field theory, the use of stochastic processes in quantum mechanics, and the reformulation of probability theory in terms of non-standard analysis.

For many years he worked on mathematical physics and probability theory, and he retained a residual interest in these fields, particularly in connection with possible extensions of stochastic mechanics to field theory.

2018

In 2018, Aubrey de Grey showed that χ ≥ 5.

In the later part of his career, he worked on mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics.

One of his goals was to extend IST (Internal Set Theory—a version of a portion of Abraham Robinson's non-standard analysis) in a natural manner that includes external functions and sets, in a way that provides an external function with specified properties unless there is a finitary obstacle to its existence.

Other work centered on fragments of arithmetic, studying the divide between those theories interpretable in Raphael Robinson's arithmetic and those that are not; computational complexity, including the problem of whether P is equal to NP or not; and automated proof checking.