Tarski, Alfred

Alfred Tarski was a renowned Polish-American mathematician and logician known for his work on formal logic, semantics, and the foundations of mathematics. He developed rigorous methods to define truth in formal languages, notably proposing that the truth of a statement depends on its correspondence with reality or the state of affairs it describes. His approach helped bridge the gap between philosophical notions of truth and formal systems, influencing modern logic, mathematics, and computer science. Tarski’s work remains fundamental in understanding how formal languages relate to the real world and how meaningful statements can be precisely analyzed.