Today, January 17, is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Louis Couturat (1868–1914) Couturat was the main promoter of symbolic logic in France at the beginning of the 20th century We celebrate this day by launching the Louis Couturat Logic Prize http://www.uni-log.org/louis-couturat-logic-prize.
And there will be a tutorial on Couturat at the 6th World School of Logic in Vichy (June 16-20) given by Oliver Schlaudt (University of Heidelberg, Germany): Louis Couturat: Early symbolic logic and the dream of a Characteristica Universalis http://www.uni-log.org/ULS6-louis-couturat.html This prize is part of the project A PRIZE OF LOGIC IN EVERY COUNTRY which I started by creating the Newton da Costa Logic Prize in Brazil in 2015 These prizes aim at promoting logic in each country in particular by developing interaction between all people interested in logic http://www.uni-log.org/logic-prize-world We recently launched the Alfred Tarski Logic Prize last Sunday, January 14, birthday of Tarski http://www.uni-log.org/alfred-tarski-prize-of-logic Winners of these logic prizes will present their works at UNILOG'2018, the 6th World Congress on Universal Logic in Vichy next June (21-26) and their papers will be published in the journal Logica Universalis If you are interested to create a logic prize in your country contact the Logica Universalis Association (LUA) http://www.logica-universalis.org/ Jean-Yves Beziau University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
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