Mathematician:Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

Mathematician

Austrian-born Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist.

Best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics.

Nationality

Israeli, of Austrian origin

History

• Born: 8 September 1915, Vienna
• Died: 25 September 1975, Jerusalem

Publications

• 1953: Some Linguistic Problems Connected With Machine Translation (Philosophy of Science Vol. 20: pp. 217 – 225)

• Jul 1954: Indexical Expressions (Mind Vol. 63, no. 251: pp. 359 – 379)

• 1958: Foundations of Set Theory (with Dirk van Dalen and Azriel Lévy)
  • 1973: Foundations of Set Theory, 2nd Ed. (with Abraham Halevi Fraenkel, Dirk van Dalen and Azriel Lévy)

• 1964: Language and Information: Selected Essays on Their Theory and Application

• 1965: Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the 1964 International Congress (as editor)

• 1970: Aspects of Language: Essays in Philosophy of Language, Linguistic Philosophy, and Methodology of Linguistics

• 1970: Mathematical Logic and Foundations of Set Theory: Colloquium Proceedings, Jerusalem, 1968 (as editor)

• 1971: Pragmatics of Natural Languages: Proceedings of the 1970 International Working Symposium (as editor)

Also known as

In Hebrew: Hebrew: יהושע בר-הלל‎‎