# Emil Post and his Anticipation of Goedel and Turing

by John Stillwell (University of San Francisco)

This article originally appeared in:
Mathematics Magazine
February, 2004

Subject classification(s): Logic and Foundations | Logic | Mathematics History | Biographies of Mathematicians
Applicable Course(s): 4.6 Logic/Foundations | 4.8 History of Math | 4.10 Math for High School Teachers

The author discusses Emil Posts life and ideas about incompletness and insolvability which later became famous with Goedel and Turings work, and the differences between Post and Goedel.

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