Biography:Hilary Putnam
| Hilary Putnam
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Known for | Hilary Whitehall Putnam (; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. |
Hilary Putnam is a biographical subject in the ScholarlyWiki science collection. Hilary Whitehall Putnam (; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to the studies of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science.[1]
Work and context
Outside philosophy, Putnam contributed to mathematics and computer science. Together with Martin Davis he developed the Davis–Putnam algorithm for the Boolean satisfiability problem and he helped demonstrate the unsolvability of Hilbert's tenth problem.
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References
- ↑ "Hilary Putnam". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Putnam.
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