| LC control no. | n 79017973 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Zadeh, Lotfi A. (Lotfi Asker) |
| Variant(s) | Zadeh, Lotfi Asker Zadă, Lu̇tfi Zade, Li︠u︡tfi Zadeh, L. A. (Lotfi Asker) Заде, Лютфи |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Iran |
| Birth date | 1921-02-04 |
| Death date | 2017-09-06 |
| Place of birth | Baku (Azerbaijan) |
| Place of death | Berkeley (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Fuzzy mathematics Fuzzy logic |
| Affiliation | University of California, Berkeley Columbia University |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians Computer scientists Electrical engineers College teachers |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated |
| Found in | His Frequency analysis of variable networks, 1950. Fuzzy sets and decision analysis, 1983: CIP t.p. (L.A. Zadeh) book t.p. (Lotfi A. Zadeh) LCCN 63-14581: His Linear system theory, 1963 (hdg.: Zadeh, Lotfi Asker; usage: Lotfi A. Zadeh) Du̇ni̐a daḣilărsiz i̐ashai̐a bilmir, 2000: t.p. verso (Lu̇tfi Zadă) p. 125, etc. (Li︠u︡tfi Zade; b. 1921 in Baku, emigrated from Iran to America in 1944; discoverer of the theory of 'fuzzy logic', has been working at Berkeley University since 1959) New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 12, 2017 (in obituary published Sept. 11: Lotfi Zadeh; b. Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Feb. 4, 1921, Baku, Azerbaijan; his family moved across the Soviet border to Iran; during World War II he sold goods to the American Army, earning enough money to continue his education in the United States; professor at Columbia; moved to Berkeley in 1959; d. Wednesday [Sept. 6, 2017], Berkeley, Calif., aged 96; computer scientist and electrical engineer whose theories of "fuzzy logic" rippled across academia and industry, influencing everything from linguistics, economics, and medicine to air-conditioners, vacuum cleaners, and rice cookers) |
| Associated language | eng aze |
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