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George Spencer-Brown, also G. Spencer-Brown (April 2, 1923) was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England and is a British mathematician.

Best known for his book Laws of Form. The Calculus presented in it has been very influential to some (e.g. Heinz von Foerster, Niklas Luhmann, Francisco Varela), but for some others it is incomprehensible and tautologic. He claimed to have proven the four-colour theorem using his calculus of form and has a patent on an elevator controller.

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