Ernst Specker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swiss mathematician (1920-2011)
Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1920
Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland
Date of Death: 10-Dec-2011
Profession: mathematician, university teacher
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Ernst Specker
- Ernst Paul Specker (11 February 1920, Zurich – 10 December 2011, Zurich) was a Swiss mathematician.
- Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible.
- He also proved the ordinal partition relation ?2 ? (?2,3)2, thereby solving a problem of Erdos. Specker received his Ph.D.
- in 1949 from ETH Zurich, where he remained throughout his professional career.
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