Emil Leon Post: advisors and students

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Emil Leon Post

Polish-born American logician1897 to 1954

Wikidata names Cassius Jackson Keyser as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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known as: mathematician, philosopher, logician, university teacher
fields: mathematic
notable works: Post correspondence problem, Post's inversion formula, Post's lattice, Post's theorem, Post canonical system
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