Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
יהושע בר-הלל
Born(1915-09-08)September 8, 1915
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
DiedSeptember 25, 1975(1975-09-25) (aged 60)
Jerusalem, Israel
EducationHebrew University of Jerusalem
Known forBar-Hillel lemma
ChildrenMaya, Mira
Scientific career
Fieldsphilosophy, mathematics, linguistics
InstitutionsMIT
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesis Theory of syntactic categories  (1945)
Doctoral advisor
Abraham Fraenkel
Other academic advisors
Rudolf Carnap

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Hebrew: יהושע בר-הלל; 8 September 1915 – 25 September 1975) was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He was a pioneer in the fields of machine translation and formal linguistics.