Evert Willem Beth

Evert Willem Beth (7 July 1908 to 12 April 1964) was a Dutch philosopher and logician whose work principally concerned the foundations of mathematics. He was a member of the Significs Group. Born in Almelo in the eastern Netherlands, he studied mathematics and physics at Utrecht University and also philosophy and psychology, and took his 1935 PhD in philosophy. In 1946 he became professor of logic and the foundations of mathematics in Amsterdam, the first academic post in his country in that field, and held the post continuously until his death, apart from two brief interruptions, in 1951 as a research assistant to Alfred Tarski and in 1957 as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University.