The Georg Kreisel collection

Georg Kreisel was born in Graz on 15 September 1923. After studying mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1944, MA 1947), he lectured at the University of Reading. From 1955-1957 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and professor of mathematics at the Sorbonne from 1960-1964. In 1954, he spend time at Stanford University as a visiting associate professor. Ten years later, in 1964, he was appointed to a Stanford professorship divided between the Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics. After his retirement in 1985, Kreisel moved to Austria, where he died near Salzburg on 1 March 2015.

The collection from the years 1958-2012 is comprised of papers and lecture manuscripts, bibliographies and special prints of his on works, typescripts and special prints of other authors as well as a large body of correspondence, mainly of a technical nature. The material has not been catalogued in full yet.