Emil Leon Post
American mathematician and logician (1897 – 1954) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Emil Leon Post (/poʊst/; 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.
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Emil Leon Post | |
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Born | February 11, 1897 |
Died | April 21, 1954(1954-04-21) (aged 57) New York City, U.S. |
Alma mater | City College of New York (B.S., 1917)[1] Columbia University (A.M. 1918, Ph.D. 1920)[2] |
Known for | Formulation 1 Post correspondence problem Completeness-proof of Principia's propositional calculus Post's inversion formula Post's lattice Post's theorem |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics, logic |
Institutions | Princeton University |
Thesis | Introduction to a General Theory of Elementary Propositions (1920) |
Doctoral advisor | Cassius Jackson Keyser |
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