Kurt Schütte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kurt Schütte

German mathematician

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1909

Place of Birth: Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 18-Aug-1998

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac 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.