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Emil Leon Post Information (277 words) |
 | Emil Leon Post (February 11 1897 – April 21 1954) was an American mathematician and logician. |
| His Post correspondence problem contributed to the decision problems of recursion theory, as a new model of computation. |
| Emil Leon Post at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. |
| Post biography (1953 words) |
| Post's early death at the age of 57 was almost certainly a direct consequence of the treatment he received for his mental illness. |
| Post received the electric shock treatment on a number of occasions and it was while he was in a mental institution, shortly after receiving electric shocks, that he suffered a heart attack and died. |
| Post is best known for his work on polyadic groups, recursively enumerable sets, and degrees of unsolvability, as well as for his contribution to the unsolvability of problems in combinatorial mathematics. |
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