Raymond Smullyan
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Raymond Merrill Smullyan (born 1919) is an American mathematician, logician, philosopher, and magician.
Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career (like Persi Diaconis a generation later) was stage magic. He then obtained a BSc from Chicago in 1955 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1959. He is one of many outstanding logicians to have studied under Alonzo Church.
While a Ph.D. student, Smullyan published a paper in the 1957 Journal of Symbolic Logic showing that Gödelian incompleteness held...
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