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5 unusual facts about George Boolos


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George Boolos (1940–1996), American philosopher and mathematical logician

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Peter Simons (1982) "On understanding Lesniewski," History and Philosophy of Logic.

While Boolos is usually credited with plural quantification, Peter Simons (1982) has argued that the essential idea can be found in the work of Stanislaw Leśniewski.

John P. Burgess

He coauthored another book Computability and Logic with George Boolos and Richard Jeffrey.

Switch statement

George Boolos, John Burgess, and Richard Jeffrey, 2002, Computability and Logic: Fourth Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, ISBN 0-521-00758-5 paperback.


Primitive recursive function

George Boolos, John Burgess, Richard Jeffrey (2002), Computability and Logic: Fourth Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.


see also

Bachelor of Philosophy

Notable graduates of the BPhil include: Daniel Dennett, Peter Singer, George Boolos, Thomas Nagel, GA Cohen, Patricia Churchland, JJC Smart, Galen Strawson, Kris Kristofferson.