Newton da Costa
Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa | |
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Da Costa in 1973 | |
| Born | 16 September 1929 |
| Died | 16 April 2024 (aged 94) |
| Known for | Paraconsistent logic |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy and Philosophy of Science |
| Doctoral students | |
Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa (16 September 1929 – 16 April 2024) was a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher. Born in Curitiba, he studied engineering and mathematics at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba and the title of his 1961 Ph.D. dissertation was Topological spaces and continuous functions.