- Torkel Franzén
Torkel Franzén (
April 1 ,1950 –April 19 ,2006 ) was a Swedish academic working at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering atLuleå University of Technology , Sweden, in the fields ofmathematical logic andcomputer science . He was known for his work onGödel's incompleteness theorems and for his contributions toUsenet . [ [http://www.ams.org/ams/inmemory-2006-2007.html In Memory Of] , web page at theAmerican Mathematical Society , accessedAugust 2 ,2007 .] He was active in the online science fiction fan community, and even issued his own electronic fanzine "Frotz" on his fiftieth birthday. [ [http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/frotz.html Frotz: An Electronic Oneshot] , accessed onlineSeptember 8 ,2007 .] He died ofbone cancer at age 56. [http://groups.google.com/group/sci.logic/browse_frm/thread/8deb70503c02d63e/36847f81050c349d]Selected works
* "Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse". Wellesley,
Massachusetts :A K Peters, Ltd. , 2005. x + 172 pp. ISBN 1-56881-238-8.
* "Inexhaustibility: A Non-Exhaustive Treatment". Wellesley,Massachusetts :A K Peters, Ltd. , 2004. Lecture Notes in Logic, #16,Association for Symbolic Logic . ISBN 1-56881-174-8.
* [http://www.ams.org/notices/200604/fea-franzen.pdf The Popular Impact of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem] , "Notices of the American Mathematical Society", 53, #4 (April 2006), pp. 440–443.References
External links
* [http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/ Home page]
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