Alfred Tarski (/ˈtɑːrski/, born Alfred Teitelbaum; January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983) was a Polish-American logician and mathematician. A prolific author...
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The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set-theoretic geometry, which states the following: Given a solid ball in three-dimensional space, there exists...
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areas of order and lattice theory, the Knaster–Tarski theorem, named after Bronisław Knaster and Alfred Tarski, states the following: Let (L, ≤) be a complete...
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the area of modern algebra known as group theory, a Tarski monster group, named for Alfred Tarski, is an infinite group G, such that every proper subgroup...
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Liar paradox (section Alfred Tarski)
{\displaystyle x=1-x} from which it follows that x = 0.5 {\displaystyle x=0.5} Alfred Tarski diagnosed the paradox as arising only in languages that are "semantically...
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congruence relation. The algebra is named for logicians Adolf Lindenbaum and Alfred Tarski. Starting in the academic year 1926-1927, Lindenbaum pioneered his method...
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Tarski's undefinability theorem, stated and proved by Alfred Tarski in 1933, is an important limitative result in mathematical logic, the foundations...
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Semantic theory of truth (redirect from Tarski's definition of truth)
and deflationary conceptions, is due to work by Polish logician Alfred Tarski. Tarski, in "On the Concept of Truth in Formal Languages" (1935), attempted...
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Tarski's circle-squaring problem is the challenge, posed by Alfred Tarski in 1925, to take a disc in the plane, cut it into finitely many pieces, and...
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Lwów–Warsaw school of logic, which was later made famous internationally by Alfred Tarski, who had been a student of Leśniewski. During the start of the Second...
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