Ing of freges philosophy of mathematics p 18 and sluga to show how frege played a mediating role between late nineteenth century philosophy and the linguistic philosophy of the present century 5 by focusing on the fregean contribution to the formation of the analytic tradition p 7 here however the similarity ends. Freges grundlagen frege 1884 went virtually unnoticed and frege recorded his disappointment and frustration in the introduction to his grundgesetze frege 1893 p xi furth 1967 p 8 dedekinds monograph was sind und was sollen die zahlen . Gottlob frege born november 8 1848 wismar mecklenburg schwerin died july 26 1925 bad kleinen germany german mathematician and logician who founded modern mathematical logicworking on the borderline between philosophy and mathematics viz in the philosophy of mathematics and mathematical logic in which no intellectual precedents existed frege discovered on his own the