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Boris Trakhtenbrot

Who

Boris Trakhtenbrot · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1921, Brichevo, Bessarabia (now Moldova) — 2016, Israel

Where

Soviet Union · Israel · Tel Aviv University

Biography

Boris Trakhtenbrot is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Boris Trakhtenbrot was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, a pioneer of theoretical computer science, remembered for Trakhtenbrot's theorem on the undecidability of finite satisfiability in first-order logic and for foundational work on automata and complexity. He emigrated to Israel and taught at Tel Aviv University. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS

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Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS