 lotfali askar zadeh (; born ;http://diaspora.gov.az/index.php?options=content&id=619 february 4, 1921), better known as lotfi a. zadeh, is a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the university of california, berkeley. he is best known for proposing the fuzzy mathematics consisting of those fuzzy related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information. == life and career == zadeh was born in baku, azerbaijan ssr,at this time, the azerbaijan ssr was an independent republic, created by the red army. it would become part of the transcaucasian socialist federative soviet republic in march 1922, and then part of the soviet union in december 1922. as lotfi aliaskerzadeh,mcneil & freiberger, p.17 to an iranian azerbaijani father from ardabil, rahim aleskerzade, who was a journalist on assignment from iran, and a russian jewish mother,"jews in computer & information science" on the jinfo
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