In this episode, we explore the extraordinary life and ideas of Gottlob Frege, the German mathematician and philosopher whose work quietly revolutionised the entire structure of modern reasoning.

Although largely unknown during his lifetime, Frege would go on to reshape mathematics, logic, philosophy of language, and even the foundations of computer science. His invention of predicate logic replaced the 2,000-year-old Aristotelian system, solving problems traditional logic could never handle and creating the framework that underpins modern programming, artificial intelligence, and analytic philosophy.

We unpack Frege’s intellectual journey — his early ambition to show that all of mathematics could be derived purely from logic, the publication of his groundbreaking Begriffsschrift, and the dev ...