Kurt Schütte

Kurt Schütte (14 October 1909 – 18 August 1998) was a German mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. He was the doctoral advisor of 16 students, including Wolfgang Bibel, Wolfgang Maaß, Wolfram Pohlers, and Martin Wirsing.

Kurt Schütte
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Born	(1909-10-14)14 October 1909 Salzwedel
Died	18 August 1998(1998-08-18) (aged 88) Munich
Known for	Feferman–Schütte ordinal
Scientific career
Thesis	Untersuchungen zum Entscheidungsproblem der mathematischen Logik  (1934)
Doctoral advisor	David Hilbert

Publications

• Schütte, Kurt (1977), Proof theory, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 225, Berlin-New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. xii+299, ISBN 3-540-07911-4, MR 0505313^[1]
  • Beweistheorie, Springer, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 1960; new edition trans. into English as Proof Theory, Springer-Verlag 1977
• Vollständige Systeme modaler und intuitionistischer Logik, Springer 1968
• with Wilfried Buchholz: Proof Theory of Impredicative Subsystems of Analysis, Bibliopolis, Naples 1988
• with Helmut Schwichtenberg: Mathematische Logik, in Fischer, Hirzebruch et al. (eds.) Ein Jahrhundert Mathematik 1890-1990, Vieweg 1990