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In Gödel's time, who were major figures working with logic and set theory to examine the mathematical foundations?
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In Gödel's time, Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and David Hilbert were major figures working with logic and set theory to examine the mathematical foundations. Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica was a monumental work in mathematical logic that attempted to derive all of mathematics from a set of axioms.
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