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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alfred_TarskiAlfred Tarski - Wikipedia

    Alfred Tarski (/ ˈ t ɑːr s k i /, 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 ...

  2. plato.stanford.edu › entries › tarskiAlfred Tarski (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

    Oct 30, 2006 · Alfred Tarski (1901–1983) described himself as “a mathematician (as well as a logician, and perhaps a philosopher of a sort)” (1944, p. 369). He is widely considered as one of the greatest logicians of the twentieth century (often regarded as second only to Gödel), and thus as one of the greatest logicians of all time.

  3. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk › Biographies › TarskiAlfred Tarski - MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive

    Quick Info. Born. 14 January 1901. Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland) Died. 26 October 1983. Berkeley, California, USA. Summary. Alfred Tarski made important contributions in many areas of mathematics, including metamathematics, set theory, measure theory, model theory, and general algebra. View seven larger pictures. Biography.

  4. www.britannica.com › biography › Alfred-TarskiAlfred Tarski | Polish-American, Logician, Philosopher

    Alfred Tarski (born January 14, 1901, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire—died October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California, U.S.) was a Polish-born American mathematician and logician who made important studies of general algebra, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and metamathematics.

  5. plato.stanford.edu › entries › tarski-truthTarski’s Truth Definitions - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Nov 10, 2001 · In the late 1920s Alfred Tarski embarked on a project to give rigorous definitions for notions useful in scientific methodology. In 1933 he published (in Polish) his analysis of the notion of a true sentence.

  6. www.encyclopedia.com › philosophy-biographies › alfred-tarskiAlfred Tarski | Encyclopedia.com

    May 29, 2018 · The Polish-American mathematician and logician Alfred Tarski (1902-1983) is regarded as the cofounder of metamathematics and one of the founders of the discipline of semantics. Alfred Tarski was born in Warsaw on Jan. 14, 1902.

  7. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentAlfred Tarski - Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies

    Aug 22, 2023 · Alfred Tarski (b. 1901–d. 1983) was a Polish–American mathematician, widely regarded as one of the greatest logicians of all time. Tarski’s work has been influential in philosophy, especially through his theories of three concepts of traditional philosophical and, specifically, logical interest: the concepts of truth, of logical ...