Mathematician:John Charles Chenoweth McKinsey
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Mathematician
American mathematician best known for his work on mathematical logic and game theory. He also made significant contributions to modal logic.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: 30 April 1908 in Clinton County, Indiana
- Died: October 26, 1953 in Palo Alto
Publications
- 1934: A reduction in number of the postulates for C. I. Lewis' system of strict implication (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 40: pp. 425 – 427)
- 1935: On the independence of undefined ideas (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 41: pp. 291 – 297)
- 1936: Reducible Boolean functions (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 42: pp. 263 – 267)
- 1936: On Boolean functions of many variables (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 40: pp. 343 – 362) www.jstor.org/stable/1989628
- 1948: A New Definition of Truth (Synthese Vol. 7: pp. 428 – 433)
- 1948: Some Theorems About the Sentential Calculi of Lewis and Heyting (J. Symb. Logic Vol. 13: pp. 1 – 15) (with Alfred Tarski) www.jstor.org/stable/2268135
- 1952: Some notions and problems of game theory (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 58: pp. 591 – 611)
- 1952: Introduction to the Theory of Games
- 1953: Axiomatic foundations of classical particle mechanics (Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis Vol. 2: pp. 253 – 272)
- 1953: Philosophy and the axiomatic foundations of physics (Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Philosophy Vol. 6: pp. 49 – 53)
Also known as
Known informally as J.C.C. McKinsey or Chen McKinsey