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Alfred Tarski was a Polish-American logician who lived from 1901 to 1983 and made fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. His work on the concept of truth and his development of formal semantic theories became foundational to modern logic and continue to influence how philosophers and mathematicians understand meaning and truth in formal systems.
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- Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den formalisierten Sprachen
- Über den Begriff der logischen Folgerung
- 邏輯槪論題解
- Introduction to logic and to the methodology of deductive sciences
- Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences -- Second Edition
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- Alfred
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- male
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- United States
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Place of death
- Berkeley
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Position held
- chairperson
- Employer
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Polish
- Religion
- atheism
- Academic degree
- professor
- Doctoral advisor
- Stanisław Leśniewski
- Student of
- Jan Łukasiewicz
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- mathematics
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- 1901-01-14
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- 1983-10-27
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- Alfred Tarski
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- Charles Sanders Peirce
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Alfred Tarski (/ˈtɑːrski/; Polish: [ˈtarskʲi]; 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 logic, set theory, type theory, and analytic philosophy.
Educated in Poland at the University of Warsaw, and a member of the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic and the Warsaw school of mathematics, in 1939 he immigrated to the United States, where in 1945 he became a naturalized citizen. Tarski taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1942 until his death in 1983.
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