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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: George Boole, Abraham Robinson, Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, George Boolos, Bernard Bolzano, Per Martin-Lof, John Corcoran, Thoralf Skolem, A. H. Lightstone, Lyubomir Ivanov, Ernst Zermelo, Paul Bernays, Jerzy Giedymin, Paul Benacerraf, Sergei Adian, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Laszlo Kalmar, Herbert Enderton, Colin McLarty, Evert Willem Beth, Jon Barwise, Tomek Bartoszy ski, James Earl Baumgartner, Nate Ackerman, Jean-Yves Beziau, Siegfried Gottwald, Solomon Feferman, Zygmunt Zawirski, Roland Fraisse, William W. Tait, Charles Parsons, Andrey Markov, Torkel Franzen, Peter B. Andrews, Dimiter Skordev, Peter A. Loeb, Henk Barendregt, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Robert Goldblatt, Kurt Schutte, Dag Prawitz, Andrzej Grzegorczyk. Excerpt: Bernhard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (October 5, 1781) - December 18, 1848), Bernard Bolzano in English, was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian, Catholic priest and antimilitarist of German mother tongue. Bolzano was the son of two pious Catholics. His father, Bernard Pompeius Bolzano, was born in northern Italy and moved to Prague, where he married Maria Cecilia Maurer, the (German-speaking) daughter of a Prague merchant. Only two of their twelve children lived to adulthood. Bolzano entered the University of Prague in 1796 and studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. Starting in 1800, he also began studying theology, becoming a Catholic priest in 1804. He was appointed to the then newly created chair of philosophy of religion in 1805. He proved to be a popular lecturer not just in religion but also in philosophy, and was elected head of the philosophy department in 1818. Bolzano alienated many faculty and church leaders with his teachings of the social waste of militarism and the needlessness of war. He urged a total reform of the educational, social, and economic syst...
