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  1. 1862-1943. German mathematician, who founded
  2. the formalist school with the publication of
  3. Grundlagen der Geometrie/Foundations of
  4. Geometry in 1899, which was based on his idea
  5. of postulates. He attempted to put
  6. mathematics on a logical foundation through
  7. defining it in terms of a number of basic
  8. principles, which Godel later showed to be
  9. impossible; none the less, his attempt
  10. greatly influenced 20th-century
  11. mathematicians.
  12.