| Alfred Tarski  AKA Alfred Teitelbaum
Born: 14-Jan-1902
Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
Died: 26-Oct-1983
Location of death: Berkeley, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Mathematician, Philosopher Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Tarski's indefinability theorem Military service: Polish Army (1917, 1920) "You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict."
Great Polish mathematician, theorized that arithmetic truth cannot be defined in purely arithmetical terms. Perhaps the truths of arithmetic may be ascertained, however, the meta-language used to describe them must be richer than the object language.
This eminent Professor of Logic was a heavy drinker, devoted fan of speed, and a notorious womaniser.
Father: Ignacy Teitelbaum (shopkeeper, killed by Nazis during occupation of Poland)
Mother: Rosa Prussak (killed by Nazis)
Brother: Waclaw Teitelbaum (killed by Nazis)
Wife: Maria Witkowski (teacher, m. 23-Jun-1929)
Son: Jan
Daughter: Ina
High School: Schola Mazowiecka, Poland
University: Doctorate in Mathematics, University of Warsaw (1924)
Teacher: Polish Pedagogical Institute, Warsaw (1924-29)
Teacher: Logic, University of Warsaw (1924-39)
Teacher: Mathematics, Zeromski's Lycée (1924-39)
Professor: Mathematics, UC Berkeley (1945-1968)
Converted to Catholicism 1923
National Academy of Sciences
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Smoking, Amphetamines
Author of books:
The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages (1933, Paper on logic)
What are Logical Notions? (1986, Paper on logic)
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