Kurt Schütte
Kurt Schütte | |
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| Born | 14 October 1909 |
| Died | 18 August 1998 (aged 88) |
| Known for | Feferman–Schütte ordinal |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Untersuchungen zum Entscheidungsproblem der mathematischen Logik (1934) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Hilbert |
Kurt Schütte (14 October 1909 – 18 August 1998) was a German mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. He was the doctoral advisor of 16 students, including Wolfgang Bibel, Wolfgang Maaß, Wolfram Pohlers, and Martin Wirsing.