Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
Born on: July 31, 1926Died on: March 13, 2016
Aged: 89 years 226 days (1075 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: United states
Birth Sign: Leo
Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century.
He contributed to the studies of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science. Outside philosophy, Putnam contributed to mathematics and computer science.
Together with Martin Davis he developed the Davis–Putnam algorithm for the Boolean satisfiability problem and he helped demonstrate the unsolvability of Hilbert's tenth problem.
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