Gottlob Frege

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, Hermann Lotze, 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

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.