COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Lotfi A. Zadeh

1921 - 2017

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Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh (; Azerbaijani: Lütfi Rəhim oğlu Ələsgərzadə; Persian: لطفی علی‌عسکرزاده; 4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Zadeh is best known for proposing fuzzy mathematics, consisting of several fuzzy-related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information. Zadeh was a founding member of the Eurasian Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Lotfi A. Zadeh is the 10th most popular computer scientist (down from 5th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Computer Scientist. Learn more about Lotfi A. Zadeh's academic impact at Rankless.

Lotfi A. Zadeh is most famous for his theory of fuzzy sets. He believed that in order to fully understand a concept, it is necessary to take into account the degree to which the concept is true.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 10 out of 245. Before him are Richard Stallman, Niklaus Wirth, Dennis Ritchie, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, and John McCarthy. After him are Linus Torvalds, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Edgar F. Codd, Marvin Minsky, Ivan Sutherland, and George Dantzig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 37. Before him are Gianni Agnelli, John Glenn, Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, and Marija Gimbutas. After him are Yoichiro Nambu, Akio Morita, Edgar Morin, Alida Valli, Aaron T. Beck, and Kurt Knispel. Among people deceased in 2017, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 38. Before him are Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Hiroto Muraoka, Derek Walcott, Tzvetan Todorov, Louise Hay, and Emmanuelle Riva. After him are Jean Rochefort, Adnan Khashoggi, Liu Xiaobo, Malcolm Young, Powers Boothe, and George A. Romero.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 14 out of 232. Before him are Garry Kasparov (1963), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), Zecharia Sitchin (1920), and Ivan Bagramyan (1897). After him are Ayaz Mutallibov (1938), Artur Rasizade (1935), Garegin Nzhdeh (1886), Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812), Ali Asadov (1956), and Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh (1884).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Azerbaijan

Among computer scientists born in Azerbaijan, Lotfi A. Zadeh ranks 1. 

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