Reuben Louis Goodstein (15 December 1912 – 8 March 1985) was an English mathematician with an interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Goodstein...

mathematical logic, Goodstein's theorem is a statement about the natural numbers, proved by Reuben Goodstein in 1944, which states that every Goodstein sequence...

science, married to David Reuben Goodstein (1912–1985), English mathematician and philosopher of mathematics Aaron M. Goodstein (born 1975)American Surgical...

addition. The concept of "pentation" was named by English mathematician Reuben Goodstein in 1947, when he came up with the naming scheme for hyperoperations...

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...

Ramsey Notable students G. E. M. Anscombe, Rush Rhees, Casimir Lewy, Reuben Goodstein, Norman Malcolm, Alice Ambrose, Stephan Körner, Maurice O'Connor Drury...

sociologist, taught social psychology at Leicester Reuben Goodstein, mathematician, proponent of Goodstein's theorem Cosmo Graham, Public law and Competition...

work of man. — 1886 lecture at the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung Reuben Goodstein was another proponent of finitism. Some of his work involved building...

significant contributions to the theory of transfinite numbers;, reviewer Reuben Goodstein calls his book "a goldmine of results", and similarly Leonard Gillman...

his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester under the supervision of Reuben Goodstein and C.E.M. Yates, with a thesis entitled Degrees of Unsolvability....