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Creator of Fuzzy Logic, Azerbaijani Lotfi Zadeh

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Lotfi Zadeh was born in Baku to an Azerbaijani father who was on assignment as a journalist from Iran and a Russian mother who was a physician; his family moved back to Tehran in 1931 after some of Stalin's severe immigration policies were enforced. Zadeh continued his education in English in a private Presbyterian missionary school, then graduated from the University of Tehran in 1942. He took his Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York in 1949 where he went on to teach Systems Theory.

If we asked what is his greatest achievement in life and what does he want to be remembered for most he would probably said:
The theory of Fuzzy Logic, of course, and especially my recent work that I published this year (January 1999) on the Computational Theory of Perceptions. I think that this theory will have a significant impact, not just in engineering but in basic sciences and many, many other fields. This concept opens the door to a major enlargement of the role of natural languages in scientific theory. People use formulas, mathematics and numbers when doing scientific work, but this particular development will make it possible to use natural language in scientific discourse. And it marks a significant paradigm shift.

I started talking about this idea about a year ago. I really feel that many things will develop from it. I'm confident in my judgment about it because I've been around for a long time and I know what's important and what's not. It will take a little while before people understand the idea, but once they do, it will have a major impact.

In the history of science, it's rare for a person my age 78 - to make a significant contribution so late in life. Most people have long ceased to be creative at such an age. It's curiosity, I guess, that has been, and continues to be, one of the major driving forces in my life and work. And, I'd say that its roots can definitely be traced to childhood.

Date
2018.11.15 / 15:50
Author
Murad Suleymanov
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