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Alfred Tarski

1901 - 1983

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Alfred Tarski (; 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, he immigrated to the United States in 1939 where he became a naturalized citizen in 1945. Tarski taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1942 until his death in 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Tarski is the 292nd most popular philosopher (up from 320th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Poland (up from 152nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Philosopher.

Alfred Tarski was a Polish mathematician who is most famous for his work in formal logic.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alfred Tarski ranks 292 out of 1,267. Before him are Hans Jonas, Thomas Carlyle, Speusippus, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Jacques Maritain, and Alain Badiou. After him are Miskawayh, Rudolf Bultmann, Bruno Bauer, Strato of Lampsacus, Heraclides Ponticus, and William Godwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Alfred Tarski ranks 46. Before him are Andrey Vlasov, Robert Bresson, Arthur Liebehenschel, José Leandro Andrade, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, and Jascha Heifetz. After him are Jaroslav Seifert, Milton H. Erickson, Henri Lefebvre, Walter Hallstein, Eisaku Satō, and José Nasazzi. Among people deceased in 1983, Alfred Tarski ranks 23. Before him are Arthur Koestler, Nikolai Podgorny, Roy Sullivan, Raymond Aron, Ulf von Euler, and Meyer Lansky. After him are George Cukor, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Anna Seghers, Aleksandar Ranković, Gloria Swanson, and George O. Abell.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alfred Tarski ranks 137 out of 1,694. Before him are Władysław Gomułka (1905), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Angelus Silesius (1624), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), and Adolf Anderssen (1818). After him are Albert Sabin (1906), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Edward Sapir (1884), Anna Anderson (1896), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), and Bronisław Komorowski (1952).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Alfred Tarski ranks 9. Before him are Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Jakob Böhme (1575), Christian Wolff (1679), and Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512). After him are Günther Anders (1902), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Paul Tillich (1886), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Chaïm Perelman (1912), and Johannes Bugenhagen (1485).

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