Tarski, Alfred (1902–1983)
Polish-American mathematician who, along with Aristotle,
Friedrich Frege, and Kurt Gödel
is considered one of the greatest logicians of all time and certainly the
most prolific: his collected works, excluding books, runs to 2,500 pages.
Tarski made important contributions in many areas of mathematics, including
set theory, topology,
algebraic logic, and metamathematics. His
most important contribution to logic is the semantic method
– a technique that allows a more exacting study of formal scientific
languages.
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