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George Boolos papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0507

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection includes correspondence between Boolos and Richard G. Heck concerning Die Grundlagen der Arithmetic, by Gottlob Frege, drafts of Boolos's two books, course notes from classes he taught at MIT, and copies of Boolos's published articles. Also included are Boolos's AB and PhD theses. Correspondence and course notes folders contain item indexes.

Dates

  • Creation: 1961 - 1996

Creator

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Biography

George Stephen Boolos, 1940-1996, AB in mathematics 1961, Princeton University; BPhil 1963, University of Oxford; PhD 1966, MIT, was assistant professor of philosophy at Columbia University 1966-1969. He taught philosophy of logic and mathematics at MIT as assistant professor, 1969-1973, associate professor, 1973-1980, and full professor, 1980-1996. His writings include Computability and Logic (1974), co-authored with Richard C. Jeffrey, and The Logic of Provability (1993), as well as numerous articles. He served as president of the Association for Symbolic Logic from 1995 until his death.

Extent

2 Cubic Feet (2 record cartons)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

George Boolos taught philosophy of logic and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1969 to 1996. This collection includes correspondence, drafts of Boolos's two books, course notes from classes he taught at MIT, and copies of his published articles.

Location

Materials are stored off-site. Advance notice is required for use.

Processing Information note

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Title
Preliminary Inventory to the George Boolos Papers
Status
Data Entry In Progress
Author
Aaron Vidaver
Date
Copyright 1997
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

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