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Alfred Tarski

BIRTH DATE:  1/14/1901
DEATH DATE:  10/26/83
CRAFT:  Mathematics
NATIONALITY:  Polish
PROFESSION:  logician, mathematician and philosopher
TRAVELS:  Co-author of the The Banach-Tarski Paradox (1924), which states that: A ball can be decomposed and reassembled into two balls the same size as the original; author of Tarski's undefinability theorem (1936) which states that arithmetical truth cannot be defined in arithmetic.
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