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Boris Trakhtenbrot
Russian-Israeli mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Boris (Boaz) Abramovich Trakhtenbrot (Russian: Борис Авраамович Трахтенброт, Hebrew: בועז טרכטנברוט; 19 February 1921 – 19 September 2016) was a Russian-Israeli mathematician in logic, algorithms, theory of computation, and cybernetics.
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Biography
Trakhtenbrot was born into a Jewish family in Brichevo, northern Bessarabia (now Tîrnova, Moldova).[1] He studied at the Moldovan State Pedagogical Institute in Kishinev, Chernivtsi University, and the Ukrainian Academy of Science's Mathematical Institute, completing a Ph.D. at the latter institution in 1950.[2]
He worked at Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk during the 1960s and 1970s.[3][4] In 1964 Trakhtenbrot discovered and proved a fundamental result in theoretical computer science called the gap theorem.[5] He also discovered and proved the theorem in logic, model theory, and computability theory now known as Trakhtenbrot's theorem.[6]
After immigrating to Israel in 1981, he became a professor in the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Tel Aviv University, and continued as professor emeritus until his death. He died on 19 September 2016, at the age of 95.[2][7]
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