The body of world-renowned Azerbaijani scientist, professor Lotfi Zadeh brought to Baku tonight.

Axar.az reports that the body taken to the Heydar Mosque and funeral prayer will be performed for him.

A farewell ceremony for the scientist will be held at 12:00-14:00 pm at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS).

Following the farewell ceremony, Lotfi Zadeh will be buried in the 1st Alley of Honor and a mourning ceremony will be held in the Heydar Mosque.

Famous Azerbaijani scientist Lotfi Zadeh died on Sept. 5 aged 96 in California.

Lotfi Zadeh was born in 1921 in Baku to an Iranian Azerbaijani father from Ardabil, Rahim Aleskerzade, who was a journalist on assignment from South Azerbaijan and a Russian Jewish mother, also an Iranian citizen, Fanya Korenman, who was a pediatrician from Odessa.

In 1931, when Lotfi Zadeh was ten years old, his family moved to Tehran in Iran, his father's homeland. There he continued his education in English in a private Presbyterian school in Tehran. After high school, he sat for the national university exams and placed second in the entire country. In 1942, he was graduated from the University of Tehran in electrical engineering.

During World War II, he moved to the US and took a Master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1946 and a Ph.D. from Columbia (New York) in 1949, where he began teaching systems theory.

Since 1959, Lotfi Zadeh has taught at Berkeley, first in the Electrical Engineering (EE) Department where he became Chair in 1963, and later in the Computer Science Division (EECS).