George Boolos papers
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
- 1961 - 1996
Creator
- Boolos, George (Person)
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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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- Boolos, George
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Creator
- Boolos, George (Person)
- 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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