Alfred Tarski (nonfiction)
Alfred Tarski (/ˈtɑːrski/; January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983), born Alfred Teitelbaum, was a Polish-American logician and mathematician of Polish-Jewish descent.
Educated in Poland at the University of Warsaw, and a member of the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic and the Warsaw school of mathematics, he immigrated to the United States in 1939 where he became a naturalized citizen in 1945. Tarski taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1942 until his death in 1983.
A prolific author best known for his work on model theory, metamathematics, and algebraic logic, he also contributed to abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.
His biographers Anita and Solomon Feferman state that, "Along with his contemporary, Kurt Gödel, he changed the face of logic in the twentieth century, especially through his work on the concept of truth and the theory of models."
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- Rudolf Carnap (nonfiction) - Influenced
- John Corcoran (nonfiction) - Influenced
- Donald Davidson (nonfiction) - Influenced
- Solomon Feferman (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Haim Gaifman (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Geometry (nonfiction)
- Kurt Gödel (nonfiction) - Contemporary
- Bjarni Jónsson (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Howard Jerome Keisler (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Erich Leo Lehmann (nonfiction) - Influenced
- Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction) - Doctoral advisor
- Roger Maddux (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Mathematician (nonfiction)
- Richard Montague (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Andrzej Mostowski (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction) - Influence
- Karl Popper (nonfiction) - Influenced
- Willard Van Orman Quine (nonfiction) - Influenced
- Julia Robinson (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Set theory (nonfiction)
- Patrick Suppes (nonfiction) - Influenced
- Wanda Szmielew (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Robert Vaught (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
External links:
- Alfred Tarski @ Wikipedia