Lotfi Zadeh: a Pioneer in AI, a Pioneer in Statistical Analysis, a Pioneer in Foundations of Mathematics, and a True Citizen of the World

Authors

Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

2-2018

Comments

Technical Report: UTEP-CS-18-06

Abstract

Everyone knows Lotfi Zadeh as the Father of Fuzzy Logic. There have been -- and will be -- many papers on this important topic. What I want to emphasize in this paper is that his ideas go way beyond fuzzy logic:

• he was a pioneer in AI;
• he was a pioneer in statistical analysis; and
• he was a pioneer in foundations of mathematics.

My goal is to explain these ideas to non-fuzzy folks. I also want to emphasize that he was a true Citizen of the World.