G. Spencer-Brown
George Spencer-Brown was an English polymath best known as the author of the 1969 book Laws of Form, a study of mathematics and philosophy. He described himself as a "mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, consulting psychotherapist, author, and poet".
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- Grimsby
- Educated at
- Trinity CollegeBarts and The London School of Medicine and DentistryMill Hill School
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1923
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