Alfred Horn
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Alfred Horn (February 17, 1918 – April 16, 2001) was an American
Horn sentences, which later would form the foundation of logic programming
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Biography
Horn was born on
deaf, and his father died when Horn was three years old. At this point, the children moved in with their grandparents on the mother's side. They would later move to Brooklyn
where Horn spent most of his childhood, raised by his extended family.
Horn attended the City College of New York, and later, New York University where he earned a Master's degree in mathematics. He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley in 1946. A year later, he started work at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he stayed until his retirement in 1988.
He died in 2001 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles after eight years of battling prostate cancer.
References
- Alfred Horn, Palisadian Since 1954 and Noted UCLA Math Professor – obituary from UCLA
- Publications of Alfred Horn – a list compiled by Dimiter Skordev
- Alfred Horn – the information about him in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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