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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Biography MathSciNet

Ph.D. University of Cambridge 1929

Dissertation: Logische-Philosophische Abhandlung (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)

Advisor 1: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Advisor 2: Frank Plumpton Ramsey

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Reuben Goodstein	University of London	1946	183
Casimir Lewy	University of Cambridge	1943

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