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Georg Kreisel was born on 15 September, 1923 in Graz, Austria, is an Austrian logician (1923–2015). Discover Georg Kreisel'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 92 years old?

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Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 15 September, 1923
Birthday 15 September
Birthplace Graz, Austria
Date of death 2015
Died Place Salzburg, Austria
Nationality Austria

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1923

Georg Kreisel FRS (September 15, 1923 – March 1, 2015) was an Austrian-born mathematical logician who studied and worked in the United Kingdom and America.

1938

Kreisel was born in Graz and came from a Jewish background; his family sent him to the United Kingdom before the Anschluss in 1938.

He studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then, during World War II, worked on military subjects.

1944

Ray Monk writes, "In 1944--when Kreisel was still only twenty-one--Wittgenstein shocked Rush Rhees by declaring Kreisel to be the most able philosopher he had ever met who was also a mathematician."

Kreisel was also a close friend of the Anglo-Irish philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch.

1947

They met at Cambridge in 1947 during Murdoch's year of study there.

Peter Conradi reports that Murdoch transcribed Kreisel's letters into her journals over the next fifty years.

According to Conradi, "For half a century she nonetheless records variously Kreisel's brilliance, wit and sheer 'dotty' solipsistic strangeness, his amoralism, cruelty, ambiguous vanity and obscenity."

1949

He taught at the University of Reading from 1949 until 1954 and then worked at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1955 to 1957.

1957

He returned to Reading in 1957, but then taught at Stanford University from 1958-1959.

1959

Then back at Reading for the year 1959-1960, and then the University of Paris 1960-1962.

1962

Kreisel never took a Ph.D., though much later, in 1962, he was awarded the Cambridge degree of Sc.D., a `higher doctorate' given on the basis of published research.

Kreisel was appointed a professor at Stanford University in 1962 and remained on the faculty there until he retired in 1985.

Kreisel worked in various areas of logic, and especially in proof theory, where he is known for his so-called "unwinding" program, whose aim was to extract constructive content from superficially non-constructive proofs.

1966

Kreisel was elected to the Royal Society in 1966; Kreisel remained a close friend of Francis Crick whom he had met in the Royal Navy during WWII.

While a student at Cambridge, Kreisel was the student most respected by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

1971

Murdoch dedicated her 1971 novel An Accidental Man to Kreisel and he became a (partial) model for several characters in other novels, including Marcus Vallar in The Message to the Planet and Guy Openshaw in Nuns and Soldiers.*

After retirement Kreisel lived in Salzburg, Austria.

He wrote several biographies of mathematicians including Kurt Gödel, Bertrand Russell and Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.

He died in Salzburg, aged 91.

When Kreisel was teaching at The University of Reading he would frequently take the train into London.

There was a particularly fast train that was timed just right for the shows in London, and he would go to the station at that time.

He checked the timetable one day, and that train was canceled.

But out of habit one day he showed up at the station at the usual time and the train was there.

It seems that it was going from Bristol to London, stopping at Reading only to get water.

He got on the train anyway, and from then on took that train regularly.

One day he was accosted by the conductor after he got on.

"The train doesn't stop here sir!"

"In that case I didn't get on here."