Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (German: [ˈɡɔtloːp ˈfreːɡə]; 8 November 1848 – 26 Julie 1925) wis a German philosopher, logician, an mathematician. He is considert tae be ane o the foonders o modren logic an made major contreibutions tae the foondations o mathematics.

Gottlob Frege
Frege in c. 1879
Born	8 November 1848 Wismar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
Dee'd	26 Julie 1925(1925-07-26) (aged 76) Bad Kleinen, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
Alma mater	varsity o Jena varsity o Göttingen (PhD)
Notable wirk(s)	Begriffsschrift (1879) The Foondations o Arithmetic (1884)
Era	19t-century filosofie 20t-century filosofie
Region	Wastren filosofie
Schuil	Analytic filosofie
Main interests	Filosofie o mathematics, mathematical logic, filosofie o leid
Notable ideas	Principle o compositionality, quantification theory, predicate calculus, logicism, sense an reference, Hume's principle, Frege–Geach problem
Influences Kuno Fischer, Adolf Trendelenburg,[1] Hermann Lotze,[2] Ernst Abbe, David Hume, Leibniz
Influenced Giuseppe Peano, Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michael Dummett, Edmund Husserl, Gershom Scholem, an maist o the analytic tradeetion

Gottlob Frege
Scientific career
Thesis	Über eine geometrische Darstellung der imaginären Gebilde in der Ebene (On a Geometrical Representation o Imaginary Forms in a Plane) (1873)
Doctoral advisor	Ernst Christian Julius Schering
Other academic advisors	Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch