Emil Post
Emil Post · Technology & Engineering
Pioneered the theory of computation and recursive functions.
1897, Augustów, Russian Empire (now Poland) — 1954, New York City, United States
United States
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Emil Leon Post was an American mathematician and logician who pioneered the theory of computation, introducing Post canonical systems, Post's problem in recursion theory, and results on undecidability that parallel and extend the work of Turing and Church. He was Jewish, born into a Jewish family in the Russian Empire before his family emigrated to New York.
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Pioneered the theory of computation and recursive functions.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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