Gottlob Frege, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gottlob Frege

mathematician, logician, philosopher

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1848

Place of Birth: Wismar, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Date of Death: 26-Jul-1925

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, philosopher, logician, philosopher of language, analytic philosopher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (; German: ['g?tlo?p 'fre?g?]; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician.
He worked as a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic philosophy, concentrating on the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics.
Though largely ignored during his lifetime, Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) introduced his work to later generations of philosophers. His contributions include the development of modern logic in the Begriffsschrift and work in the foundations of mathematics.
His book the Foundations of Arithmetic is the seminal text of the logicist project, and is cited by Michael Dummett as where to pinpoint the linguistic turn.
His philosophical papers "On Sense and Reference" and "The Thought" are also widely cited.
The former argues for two different types of meaning and descriptivism.
In Foundations and "The Thought", Frege argues for Platonism against psychologism or formalism, concerning numbers and propositions respectively.
Russell's paradox undermined the logicist project by showing Frege's Basic Law V in the Foundations to be false.