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Emil Leon Post (/ p oʊ s t /; February 11, 1897 – April 21, 1954) was an American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory .
Emil Leon Post. Quick Info Born 11 February 1897 Augustów, Russian Empire (now Poland) Died 21 April 1954 New York, USA Summary Emil Post was a Polish-born American ...
Quick Reference. (1897–1954) Polish-born American mathematician and logician. Post introduced the truth-table method for defining and checking validity in propositional logic. His unpublished researches into problems of completeness and decidability interestingly anticipated the 1930s results of Gödel, Church, and Turing. From: Post, Emil ...
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Most of scientific papers by Emil Leon Post were devoted to mathematical logic and to the foundations of mathematics.2 His first paper in logic was the doctoral dissertation from 1920 published in 1921 in American Journal of Mathematics under the title “Introduction to a General Theory of Elementary Propositions” (cf. Post 1921). It was ...
Alasdair Urquhart. Emil Leon Post was born on February 11 1897 into an Orthodox Jewish family in August ́ow, a town at that time within the Russian empire, but after 1918 in the province of Bialystok in Eastern Poland. In 1897 his father Arnold emigrated to join his brother in America. Seven years later, in May 1904, with the success of the ...
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POST, EMIL LEON. ( b. Augustów, Poland, 11 February 1897; d northern New York, 21 April 1954) Mathematics, logic. Post was the son of Arnold J. and Pearl D. Post. In May 1904 he arrived in America, where his father and his uncle, J. L. Post, were in the fur and clothing business in New York. As a child Post’s first love was astronomy, but ...
Nov 15, 2019 · By David Dunning, PhD Candidate, Princeton University 2019-2020 Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Fellow During his one-month residential research fellowship held during June 2019, Dunning did research in the collections for his project, “Writing the Rules of Reason: Notations in Mathematical Logic, 1847-1937.”
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