Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
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Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Hebrew: יהושע בר-הלל; 8 September 1915, in Vienna – 25 September 1975, in Jerusalem) was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He was a pioneer in the fields of machine translation and formal linguistics.
Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel | |
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Born | (1915-09-08)September 8, 1915 |
Died | September 25, 1975(1975-09-25) (aged 60) |
Education | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Known for | Bar-Hillel lemma |
Children | Maya, Mira |
Scientific career | |
Fields | philosophy, mathematics, linguistics |
Institutions | MIT Hebrew University of Jerusalem[1] |
Thesis | Theory of syntactic categories[1] (1945) |
Doctoral advisor | Abraham Fraenkel |
Other academic advisors | Rudolf Carnap |
Influenced | Asa Kasher Avishai Margalit |