Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam · Technology & Engineering
Contributions to computability and mathematical logic.
1926, Chicago, Illinois, USA — 2016, Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
United States
Hilary Putnam is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Contributions to computability and mathematical logic.
Putnam was a leading American analytic philosopher (Harvard) whose work spanned philosophy of mind, language, science and mathematics; with Martin Davis and Julia Robinson he made key advances toward the negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem in computability and logic. His mother was Jewish; secular for much of his life, Putnam returned to Judaism, held a bar mitzvah at 68 and practiced observant Judaism.
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Contributions to computability and mathematical logic.
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