Education
Born in Wichita, Kansas, he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a National Merit Scholar before earning a doctorate in mathematical logic from the University of Michigan in 1972.
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Career
An internationally recognized authority on the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Professor Dawson is the author of numerous articles on axiomatic set theory and the history of modern logic. During the years 1982 to 1984, he catalogued Gödel"s papers at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and afterward he served as a co-editor of Gödel"s Collected Works. He recently retired as co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal History and Philosophy of Logic.
K. Dawson,, Junior.
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