Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel | |
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יהושע בר-הלל | |
| Born | September 8, 1915 |
| Died | September 25, 1975 (aged 60) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Education | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Known for | Bar-Hillel lemma |
| Children | Maya, Mira |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | philosophy, mathematics, linguistics |
| Institutions | MIT Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Thesis | Theory of syntactic categories (1945) |
| Doctoral advisor | Abraham Fraenkel |
| Other academic advisors | Rudolf Carnap |
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Hebrew: יהושע בר-הלל; 8 September 1915 – 25 September 1975) was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He was a pioneer in the fields of machine translation and formal linguistics.