COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Lotfi A. Zadeh

1921 - 2017

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Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh (; Azerbaijani: Lütfi Rəhim oğlu Ələsgərzadə; Persian: لطفی علی‌عسکرزاده; 4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Zadeh is best known for proposing fuzzy mathematics, consisting of several fuzzy-related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information. Zadeh was a founding member of the Eurasian Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lotfi A. Zadeh is the 14th most popular computer scientist (down from 10th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Azerbaijan and the most popular Azerbaijani Computer Scientist. Learn more about Lotfi A. Zadeh's academic impact at Rankless.

Lotfi A. Zadeh is most famous for his theory of fuzzy sets. He believed that in order to fully understand a concept, it is necessary to take into account the degree to which the concept is true.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 14 out of 245. Before him are Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geoffrey Hinton, and Niklaus Wirth. After him are Linus Torvalds, Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, John Cocke, Don Norman, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 47. Before him are Deborah Kerr, Jane Russell, Marija Gimbutas, Vasily Stalin, Jean-Marie Balestre, and Alida Valli. After him are Georges Brassens, Kenneth Arrow, James Jones, Abdul Salam Arif, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Gérard Debreu. Among people deceased in 2017, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 45. Before him are Tzvetan Todorov, Louise Hay, Liliane Bettencourt, Emmanuelle Riva, Powers Boothe, and Chester Bennington. After him are Albert Speer, Kenneth Arrow, George A. Romero, Derek Walcott, Ryke Geerd Hamer, and Emma Morano.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 14 out of 232. Before him are Arghun (1250), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), Zecharia Sitchin (1920), and Ivan Bagramyan (1897). After him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812), Artur Rasizade (1935), Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885), Pavel Florensky (1882), Ayaz Mutallibov (1938), and Garegin Nzhdeh (1886).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Azerbaijan

Among computer scientists born in Azerbaijan, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 1. 

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