PEOPLE

Jules Richard

BIRTH DATE:  8/12/1862
DEATH DATE:  10/14/56
CRAFT:  Mathematics
NATIONALITY:  French
PROFESSION:  mathematician
TRAVELS:  Developed Richard's Paradox in 1905 -- a semantical antinomy of set theory and natural language, ordinarily used to motivate the importance of distinguishing carefully between mathematics and metamathematics.
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