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Alfred Tarski
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Tarski, Alfred 

Born Jan. 14, 1902, in Warsaw. Polish logician and mathematician.

Tarski emigrated to the USA in 1939. He has done important work in set theory, the theory of Boolean algebras, logics with formulas of infinite length, and other branches of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. He has made basic contributions to model theory, logical semantics, metalogic, and the methodology of deductive sciences.

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Undecidable Theories. New York, 1954. (With others.)
Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics. Oxford, 1956.
In Russian translation:
Vvedenie v logiku imetodologiiu deduktivnykh nauk. Moscow, 1948.
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It has only been in modern times "that structures of languages" has become important, as in the work of mathematical philosophers including Wittgenstein, Quine, Tarski, and others, who deal with "formal languages" of logic and mathematics.
Rebutting Joseph T. Major's view of general semantics in Heinlein's ... by Wright, David E. / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
INTRODUCTION The recent paper [1] by Alfred Tarski (1902-83) and Steven Givant can be considered as revival of Tarski's system of geometry.
Tarski's system of geometry and betweenness geometry with the group ... by Lumiste, Ulo / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Science Physics/Mathematics
Another mathematician and logician, as well as also a contemporary of Polanyi's, Alfred Tarski, demonstrated the same paradoxical, or inconclusive, nature of all conceivable grammatical statements.
"I know more than I can tell": the insights of Michael Polanyi by Mead, Walter B. / Modern Age
 
 
 
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