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Emil Leon Post
Emil Leon Post was an American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory.
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science · American mathematician and logician (1897 – 1954) · mathematician · philosopher · logician · university teacher · also Emil Leon Post, Emil Post, Emil L. Post, Post
Born 11 February 1897 · Died 21 April 1954 · Q351366
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2026· 2 entries
NPR: Learning to live in a post-American world
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2017· 1 entry
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,307 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,763 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “CHARMM: The biomolecular simulation program” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 8,476 times.
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1983· 1 entry
“Emmy Noether: Historical Contexts”
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1975· 1 entry
“On the Sources of My Book Modern Algebra”
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1954· 1 entry
Died 1954-04-21.
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1946· 1 entry
To give simple examples of undecidability
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1944· 1 entry
Raised the question of the existence of an uncomputable recursively enumerable set whose Turing degree is less than that of the halting problem
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1936· 2 entries
Was appointed to the mathematics department at the City College of New York
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Post developed, independently of Alan Turing, a mathematical model of computation that was essentially equivalent to the Turing machine model
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1929· 1 entry
With whom he had a daughter, Phyllis Post Goodman (1932–1995)
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1921· 2 entries
“Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen”
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“Introduction to a General Theory of Elementary Propositions”
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1920· 2 entries
At Columbia University, supervised by Cassius Jackson Keyser, he did a post-doctorate at Princeton University in the 1920–1921 academic year
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Studied at Columbia University (1917–1920).
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1917· 1 entry
Studied at City College of New York (1917).
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1913· 1 entry
Studied at Townsend Harris High School (1913).
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-02-11.
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1890· 1 entry
“Über die Theorie der algebraischen Formen”
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