Helmut Schwichtenberg
German mathematician and computer scientist
About Helmut Schwichtenberg
Born 1942. Helmut Schwichtenberg is a German mathematician, computer scientist and logician.
Helmut Schwichtenberg (born 5 April 1942 ) is a German mathematical logician.
Schwichtenberg studied mathematics from 1961 at the Free University of Berlin and from 1964 at the University of Münster, where he received his doctorate in 1968 from Dieter Rödding. He then worked as an assistant and then as a professor in Münster, and since 1978 has been professor of mathematical logic at LMU Munich (successor of Kurt Schütte).
Schwichtenberg deals with, among other things, proof theory, theory of computability, lambda calculus and applications of logic in computer science. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
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Who is Helmut Schwichtenberg?
German mathematician and computer scientist
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Helmut Schwichtenberg was born on 5 April 1942 in Żagań.
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Helmut Schwichtenberg is a mathematician, computer scientist and logician.
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Helmut Schwichtenberg is German.
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