Biography:Ferdinand Gonseth
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Short description: Swiss mathematician and philosopher
Ferdinand Gonseth (1890–1975) was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher.[1]
He was born on 22 September 1890 at Sonvilier, the son of Ferdinand Gonseth, a clockmaker, and his wife Marie Bourquin. He studied at La Chaux-de-Fonds, and read physics and mathematics at ETH Zurich, from 1910 to 1914.[2]
In 1929 Gonseth succeeded Jérôme Franel as Professor of Higher Mathematics at ETH.[3] In 1947 he founded Dialectica, with Paul Bernays and Gaston Bachelard. In the same year he took the newly-created chair of philosophy of science at ETH.[4]
Gonseth died on 17 December 1975 at Lausanne.[1] He was noted for his "open philosophy", according to which science and mathematics lacked absolute foundations.[5] See Idoneism (fr).
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gonseth, Ferdinand CTHS". http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=117881. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
- ↑ "Gonseth, Ferdinand, Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse". http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F31363.php. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
- ↑ Günther Frei; Urs Stammbach (7 March 2013) (in de). Die Mathematiker an den Zürcher Hochschulen. Springer-Verlag. p. 54. ISBN 978-3-0348-8542-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=f4n0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA54.
- ↑ Charles P. Enz (6 May 2010). No Time to be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli. OUP Oxford. p. 414. ISBN 978-0-19-958815-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=LdMVAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA414.
- ↑ Kurt Gödel; Stanford University of Mathematics (9 January 2014). Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume IV: Selected Correspondence, A-G. Clarendon Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-19-100376-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=vZjlAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA43.
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