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Alfred Tarski (/ ˈ t ɑːr s k i /, born Alfred Teitelbaum; January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983) was a Polish-American logician and mathematician. 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 ...
Oct 30, 2006 · Alfred Tarski (1901–1983) described himself as “a mathematician (as well as a logician, and perhaps a philosopher of a sort)” (1944, p. 369). He is widely considered as one of the greatest logicians of the twentieth century (often regarded as second only to Gödel), and thus as one of the greatest logicians of all time.
Alfred Tarski was a Polish-born American mathematician and logician who made important studies of general algebra, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and metamathematics. Tarski completed his education at the University of Warsaw (Ph.D., 1923).
In 1967 he was Flint professor of philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles and in 1974-75 he was in South America at the Catholic University of Chile. Tarski is recognised as one of the four greatest logicians of all time, the other three being Aristotle, Frege, and Gödel.
Nov 10, 2001 · In the late 1920s Alfred Tarski embarked on a project to give rigorous definitions for notions useful in scientific methodology. In 1933 he published (in Polish) his analysis of the notion of a true sentence.
Aug 22, 2023 · A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Alfred Tarski, a Polish-American logician and philosopher. Learn about his theories of truth, logical consequence, and logical constants, and his influence on philosophy and mathematics.
May 29, 2018 · The Polish-American mathematician and logician Alfred Tarski (1902-1983) is regarded as the cofounder of metamathematics and one of the founders of the discipline of semantics. Alfred Tarski was born in Warsaw on Jan. 14, 1902.
