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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 14 January 1901
- Died
- 26 October 1983, 27 October 1983
- Place of birth
- Warsaw
- Place of death
- Berkeley
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Alfred
- Family name
- Tarski
- Field of work
- logic, model theory, mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, philosopher, logician
- Position held
- chairperson
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Poland, United States
- Native language
- Polish
- Religion
- Catholicism, atheism
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II
- academic degree
- professor
- academic thesis
- O wyrazie pierwotnym logistyki
- archives at
- Bancroft Library
- birth name
- Alfred Tajtelbaum, Alfred Teitelbaum
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Belarusian encyclopedia (vol. 15), Q4484340
- doctoral advisor
- Stanisław Leśniewski
- doctoral student
- Solomon Feferman, Haim Gaifman, Bjarni Jónsson, Howard Jerome Keisler, Roger Maddux, Richard Montague, Andrzej Mostowski, Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, Robert Lawson Vaught, George McNulty, James Donald Monk, Frederick Burtis Thompson
- educated at
- University of Warsaw, Szkoła Mazowiecka
- employer
- University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, City College of New York, University of Warsaw, Zeromski's Lycée, Institute for Advanced Study
- Erdős number
- 1
- influenced by
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Association for Symbolic Logic
- name in native language
- Alfred Tarski
- notable work
- Łoś–Tarski preservation theorem, Knaster–Tarski theorem, Tarski's theorem, Tarski's undefinability theorem, Tarski–Seidenberg theorem, Banach–Tarski paradox, Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra, Jónsson–Tarski algebra, semantic theory of truth, Tarski's axioms, Tarski's axiomatization of the reals, Tarski's circle-squaring problem
- place of burial
- Berkeley
- significant person
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
- student
- Jan Kalicki
- student of
- Jan Łukasiewicz
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