PEOPLE

J. B. Rosser

BIRTH DATE:  12/6/1907
DEATH DATE:  9/5/89
CRAFT:  Mathematics
NATIONALITY:  American
PROFESSION:  logician and a student of alonzo church
TRAVELS:  Co-authored in 1935 (with Stephen Kleene) the KleeneƐRosser paradox shows that certain systems of formal logic are inconsistent, in particular the version of Curry's combinatory logic introduced in 1930.