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Which two well-known mathematicians were building on the work of Dedekind, Cantor, and Frege during Gödel's time?
Russell and Whitehead
Newton and Leibniz
Einstein and Tesla
Hawking and Penrose
Answer
Russell and Whitehead were two well-known mathematicians who were building on the work of Dedekind, Cantor, and Frege during Gödel's time. They were interested in the foundations of mathematics and published a three-volume work called Principia Mathematica, which attempted to prove all of mathematics from a few basic axioms. Their work was influential, but it also had some problems, which Gödel was able to point out.
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