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David Hilbert (/ ˈ h ɪ l b ər t /; [3] German: [ˈdaːvɪt ˈhɪlbɐt]; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of his time.
Hilbert's problems are 23 problems in mathematics published by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1900. They were all unsolved at the time, and several proved to be very influential for 20th-century mathematics.
[2] While David Hilbert never became a celebrity, he was seen as a mathematician unequaled in his generation, [3] with an especially wide impact on mathematics. When he met Einstein in the summer of 1915, Hilbert had started working on an axiomatic system for a unified field theory, combining the ideas of Gustav Mie's on electromagnetism with ...
The controversy started with Hilbert's axiomatization of geometry in the late 1890s. In his biography of Kurt Gödel, John W. Dawson, Jr, observed that "partisans of three principal philosophical positions took part in the debate" [1] – these three being the logicists (Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell), the formalists (David Hilbert and his colleagues), and the constructivists (Henri ...
Principles of Mathematical Logic is the 1950 [1] American translation of the 1938 second edition [2] of David Hilbert's and Wilhelm Ackermann's classic text Grundzüge der theoretischen Logik, [3] on elementary mathematical logic.
In mathematics, Hilbert's program, formulated by German mathematician David Hilbert in the early 1920s, [1] was a proposed solution to the foundational crisis of mathematics, when early attempts to clarify the foundations of mathematics were found to suffer from paradoxes and inconsistencies.
David Hilbert, 1980 (1899). The Foundations of Geometry, 2nd ed. Chicago: Open Court. Laura I. Meikle and Jacques D. Fleuriot (2003), Formalizing Hilbert's Grundlagen in Isabelle/Isar Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2758/2003, 319-334, doi:10.1007 ...
David Hilbert himself devoted much of his research to the sixth problem; [3] in particular, he worked in those fields of physics that arose after he stated the problem. In the 1910s, celestial mechanics evolved into general relativity. Hilbert and Emmy Noether corresponded extensively with Albert Einstein on the formulation of the theory. [4]