Alfred Tarski (1901 - 1983)

* 14 January 1901, † 26 October 1983

Alfred Tarski was born on 14 January 1901 in Warsaw during the 3rd partition of Poland in the Russian zone. Tarski made important contributions in many areas of mathematics, including metamathematics, set theory, measure theory, model theory, and general algebra. Alfred Tarski died on 26 October 1983 in Berkeley, California, USA.