William Boone (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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mathematician
Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1920
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 14-Sep-1983
Profession: mathematician, philosopher
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About William Boone (mathematician)
- William Werner Boone (16 January 1920 in Cincinnati – 14 September 1983 in Urbana, Illinois) was an American mathematician.
- Alonzo Church was his Ph.D.
- advisor at Princeton, and Kurt Gödel was his friend at the Institute for Advanced Study. Pyotr Novikov showed in 1955 that there exists a finitely presented group G such that the word problem for G is undecidable.
- A different proof was obtained by Boone in 1958.
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