Died 1983-10-26.
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Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski 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 logic, set theory, type theory, and analytic philosophy.
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science · Polish–American mathematician (1901–1983) · mathematician · philosopher · logician · also Alfred Tarski, Alfred Teitelbaum, Tarski
Born 14 January 1901 · Died 26 October 1983 · Q207534
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1983· 2 entries
“(…) Tarski zawsze starał się, by uważano go raczej za Polaka niż za Żyda, pomimo prześladowań, jakie spotkały jego i jego rodzinę.”
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II (1977).
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1975· 1 entry
From Marseille's Paul Cézanne University in 1977, and from the University of Calgary, as well as a Berkeley Citation in 1981
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1966· 1 entry
In London and later in 1973 in Buffalo; it was edited without his direct involvement by John Corcoran
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1948· 1 entry
It dates back to 1930 and was mentioned in Tarski (1931)
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1944· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1944–1946).
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1942· 1 entry
Tarski joined the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent the rest of his career
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1941).
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Tarski published an important paper on binary relations, which began the work on relation algebra and its metamathematics that occupied Tarski and his students for much of the balance of his life
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1939· 2 entries
Immigrated to the United States, where in 1945 he became a naturalized citizen
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Tarski wrote several textbooks and many papers – a number of them ground-breaking – while supporting himself mainly by teaching secondary-school mathematics
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1937· 2 entries
Published a paper presenting clearly his views on the nature and purpose of the deductive method, and the role of logic in scientific studies
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When he applied for a chair at Poznań University, the chair was abolished to avoid assigning it to Tarski – indisputably the strongest applicant – because he was Jewish
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1936· 2 entries
Tarski published Polish and German versions of a lecture, “On the Concept of Following Logically",
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That Peano arithmetic (the theory of natural numbers) is not decidable
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1933· 1 entry
Tarski published a very long paper in Polish, titled "Pojęcie prawdy w językach nauk dedukcyjnych", "Setting out a mathematical definition of truth for formal languages
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1931· 1 entry
“The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages”
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1930· 2 entries
Tarski visited the University of Vienna, lectured to Karl Menger's colloquium, and met Kurt Gödel
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Proved this theory decidable because it can be mapped into another theory he had already proved decidable, namely his first-order theory of the real numbers
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1929· 2 entries
Showed that much of Euclidean solid geometry could be recast as a second-order theory whose individuals are spheres (a primitive notion), a single primitive binary relation "is contained in", and two axioms that, amon
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Tarski married fellow teacher Maria Witkowska, a Catholic Pole who had served during the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921) as a courier for the Polish Army
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1926· 1 entry
Tarski devised an original axiomatization for plane Euclidean geometry, one considerably more concise than Hilbert's
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1924· 3 entries
And Stefan Banach proved that, if one accepts the Axiom of Choice, a ball can be cut into a finite number of pieces, and then reassembled into a ball of larger size, or alternatively it can be reassembled into two bal
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Became the only person ever to complete a doctorate under Leśniewski's supervision
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Studied at University of Warsaw (1918–1924).
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1923· 1 entry
Alfred Teitelbaum and his brother Wacław changed their surname to “Tarski”
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1918· 3 entries
Warsaw University came under the leadership of Jan Łukasiewicz, Stanisław Leśniewski, and Wacław Sierpiński and quickly became a world-leading research institution in logic, foundational mathematics, and the philosophy o
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Entered the University of Warsaw intending to study biology
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Studied at Szkoła Mazowiecka (1915–1918).
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1901· 1 entry
Born 1901-01-14.
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