Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
יהושע בר-הלל
Born(1915-09-08)September 8, 1915
DiedSeptember 25, 1975(1975-09-25) (aged 60)
Jerusalem, Israel
EducationHebrew University of Jerusalem
Known forBar-Hillel lemma
ChildrenMaya, Mira
Scientific career
Fieldsphilosophy, mathematics, linguistics
InstitutionsMIT
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesis Theory of syntactic categories  (1945)
Doctoral advisorAbraham Fraenkel
Other academic advisorsRudolf 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.