Lotfi A. Zadeh

US Mathematician

Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (/'z??de?/;Azerbaijani: Lütfi R?him oglu ?l?sg?rzad?;Persian: ???? ????????????; 4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Zadeh is best known for proposing fuzzy mathematics, consisting of several fuzzy-related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information.Zadeh was a founding member of the Eurasian Academy.