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Alfred Tarski

1901 - 1983

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Alfred Tarski (, 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 logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy. Educated in Poland at the University of Warsaw, and a member of the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic and the Warsaw school of mathematics, he immigrated to the United States in 1939 where he became a naturalized citizen in 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Tarski has received more than 629,499 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Tarski is the 320th most popular philosopher (down from 297th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 133rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Philosopher.

Alfred Tarski was a Polish mathematician who is most famous for his work in formal logic.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Alfred Tarski ranks 320 out of 1,267. Before him are Nicolai Hartmann, Jacobus Arminius, Gemistus Pletho, Judith Butler, Alfred Schütz, and Julius Caesar Scaliger. After him are Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Rudolf Otto, Moritz Schlick, Ramanuja, Moses Hess, and Martianus Capella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Alfred Tarski ranks 45. Before him are Margaret Mead, Robert Bresson, Jascha Heifetz, Nikolai Vatutin, Henri Lefebvre, and Vincent du Vigneaud. After him are José Nasazzi, Arthur Liebehenschel, Carl Barks, Eisaku Satō, Zhang Xueliang, and José Leandro Andrade. Among people deceased in 1983, Alfred Tarski ranks 22. Before him are Raymond Aron, David Niven, George Cukor, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Buckminster Fuller, and Gerhard Barkhorn. After him are Gloria Swanson, Ulf von Euler, Aleksandar Ranković, John Fante, Klaus Nomi, and Luis Monti.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alfred Tarski ranks 152 out of 1,694. Before him are Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), Jerzy Grotowski (1933), and Clara Immerwahr (1870). After him are Miroslav Klose (1978), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Rochus Misch (1917), Erich Mendelsohn (1887), and Maxim Litvinov (1876).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Alfred Tarski ranks 9. Before him are Ernst Cassirer (1874), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Christian Wolff (1679), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Jakob Böhme (1575), and Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512). After him are Günther Anders (1902), Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Leszek Kołakowski (1927), Chaïm Perelman (1912), and Roman Ingarden (1893).

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