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Emil Leon Post

The handsome Emil Leon Post in his 40's
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Facts:

Born on February 11, 1897 in Augustowo, Russian Empire (now Poland)

Died on April 21st, 1954 (Age 57) in New York City, NY

Ethnicity: Polish-Jew

Degrees:

• B.S. Mathematics - 1917 (Age 20)
• Ph.D. Mathematics - 1920 (Age 23)

What Emil Leon Post is famous for

• Creating Recursion Theory and Logic Matrices
• Posing and solving the decision problem of the tautologies on the key 20th century work on the foundation of mathematics, Principia Mathematica
  
• Not publshing his many of his works, one of which was completed a decade before the publication of Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem
  
• Submitted his Post model for publishing months after the similar Turing model's debut
  
• Fell into hysteria at age 24 during his post-doctoral research at Princeton University in 1921 and never recovered