John W. Dawson, Jr

John W. Dawson, Jr

John W. Dawson, Jr. is Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvaia State University at York. Born in Wichita, Kansas, he attended M.I.T. as a National Merit Scholar before earning a doctorate in mathematical logic from the University of Michigan. An internationally recognized authority on the life and work of Kurt Goedel, Professor Dawson is the author of numerous articles on axiomatic set theory and the history of modern logic. During the years 1982 to 1984, he catalogued Goedel's papers at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and afterward he served as a co-editor of Goedel's Collected Works.

Books by Dawson

*John W. Dawson, Jr, 1997. Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel, A. K. Peters, Wellesley, MA, ISBN 1-56881-256-6

Additional publications

Dawson, John W., Jr. The published work of Kurt Gödel: an annotated bibliography. Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 24 (1983), no. 2, 255--284.


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