Paul Hertz

Paul Hertz

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• Description: German Physicist
• Birth: July 29 1881 - Hamburg, Germany
• Death: Mar 24 1940 - Philadelphia, United States

Paul Hertz

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• Birth: July 29 1881
• Death: Mar 24 1940

Paul Hertz (* 29. Juli 1881 in Hamburg; † 24. März 1940 in Philadelphia) war ein deutscher Physiker.

Paul Hertz kam in Hamburg als Sohn des Juristen Eduard Hertz und dessen Frau Elisabeth zur Welt

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Biography

Paul Hertz was born in 1881 in Hamburg, Germany. He studied mathematics and physics in Heidelberg, Göttingen, Leipzig, and then again in Göttingen, where he earned his PhD in 1904 as a student of Max Abraham. He earned his habilitation at Heidelberg in 1909, returned to Göttingen in 1912, and became a professor extraordinarius there in 1921.

Hertz began his scientific career as a theoretical physicist. Later he made significant contributions in the foundations of mathematics and in axiomatics. His approach to research was characterized by thorough treatment of conceptual issues and close analysis of methodological problems. He thus achieved results important for the foundations of mathematical logic, and his investigations were the precursor to various later researches in this area. Gerhard Gentzen's calculus of sequence in particular took as its starting point Hertz's observations about theorem systems.

Eventually his interests led Hertz to philosophical and broader logical questions. Political circumstances caused him to emigrate with his family to the United States, where he suffered an untimely death in 1940 while still engaged in his research. Paul Hertz was an important representative of the philosophy of science at a time when it received virtually no recognition in German-speaking countries.