Emil Leon Post

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American mathematician and logician

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Emil Leon Post was an American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory. Wikipedia

Born: February 11, 1897, Augustów, Poland

Died: April 21, 1954 (age 57 years), New York, NY

Books: The Two-valued Iterative Systems of Mathematical Logic, Solvability, provability, definability: the collected works of Emil L. Post, and The Two-Valued Iterative Systems of Mathematical Logic. (AM-5), Volume 5

Academic advisor: Cassius Jackson Keyser

Thesis: Introduction to a General Theory of Elementary Propositions (1920)