Reuben Louis Goodstein (15 December 1912 – 8 March 1985) was an English mathematician with an interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Goodstein...
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mathematical logic, Goodstein's theorem is a statement about the natural numbers, proved by Reuben Goodstein in 1944, which states that every Goodstein sequence...
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science, married to David Reuben Goodstein (1912–1985), English mathematician and philosopher of mathematics Aaron M. Goodstein (born 1975)American Surgical...
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addition. The concept of "pentation" was named by English mathematician Reuben Goodstein in 1947, when he came up with the naming scheme for hyperoperations...
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beyond exponentiation, the nth member of this sequence is named by Reuben Goodstein after the Greek prefix of n suffixed with -ation (such as tetration...
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Ramsey Notable students G. E. M. Anscombe, Rush Rhees, Casimir Lewy, Reuben Goodstein, Norman Malcolm, Alice Ambrose, Stephan Körner, Maurice O'Connor Drury...
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sociologist, taught social psychology at Leicester Reuben Goodstein, mathematician, proponent of Goodstein's theorem Cosmo Graham, Public law and Competition...
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work of man. — 1886 lecture at the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung Reuben Goodstein was another proponent of finitism. Some of his work involved building...
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significant contributions to the theory of transfinite numbers;, reviewer Reuben Goodstein calls his book "a goldmine of results", and similarly Leonard Gillman...
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1896–1897 William John Greenstreet: 1897–1930 Alan Broadbent: 1930–1955 Reuben Goodstein: 1956–1962 Edwin A. Maxwell: 1962–1971 Douglas Quadling: 1971–1980...
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