Günter Asser (26 February 1926,
Berlin
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– 23 March 2015) was a professor emeritus of
logic
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and
mathematics at the
University of Greifswald
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. He published numerous volumes on
philosophers and
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
s. His own research was in
computability theory.
In 1954, with his doctoral advisor Karl Schröter, he co-founded the journal ''Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik'', which later became ''Mathematical Logic Quarterly''.
MLQ website
/ref> In 1977, Günter Asser became member of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin.
See also
*Spectrum of a sentence In mathematical logic, the spectrum of a sentence is the set of natural numbers occurring as the size of a finite model in which a given sentence is true.
Definition
Let ''ψ'' be a sentence in first-order logic. The ''spectrum'' of ''ψ'' ...
References
External links
* ''Ostsee-Zeitung'' (German newspaper
article
of 30 Mar 2015 — includes a group photograph from Greifswald University
Publication list
at DBLP
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1926 births
German logicians
20th-century German mathematicians
2015 deaths
German philosophers
German male writers
Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
21st-century German mathematicians