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Ladislav Svante Rieger (1916–1963) was a Czechoslovak
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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who worked in the areas of
algebra
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mathematical logic
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, and
axiomatic set theory
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. He is considered to be the founder of mathematical logic in Czechoslovakia, having begun his work around 1957.
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1916 births
1963 deaths
Czechoslovak mathematicians
Algebraists
Set theorists
Charles University alumni
Academic staff of Charles University
Czechoslovak philosophers
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