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Wang Hao, also
Hao Wang (;
20 May 1921 –
13 May 1995) was a
Chinese American logician,
philosopher and
mathematician.
Born in
Jinan, Shandong, in the
Republic of China (today in the
People's Republic of China), Wang received his early education in China. After obtaining a B.Sc. degree in
Mathematics from the
National Southwestern Associated University in
1943 and an M.A. in
Philosophy from
Tsinghua University in
1945, he went to the United States for further graduate studies. He studied logic at
Harvard University, culminating in a Ph.D. in
1948. He was appointed to an assistant professorship at Harvard the same year.
During the early
1950s, Wang studied with
Paul Bernays in
Zurich. In
1956, he was appointed Reader in the Philosophy of Mathematics at
Oxford University, and in
1961, he was appointed Gordon MacKay Professor of Mathematical Logic and Applied Mathematics at Harvard. From
1967 until 1991, he headed the logic research group at
Rockefeller University in
New York City, where he was
professor of logic. In 1972, Wang joined in a group of Chinese American scientists led by
Chih-Kung Jen as the first such delegation from the U.S. to the People's Republic of China.
One of the most important contributions of Wang was the invention of
Wang tiles. He showed that any
Turing machine can be turned into a set of Wang tiles. The first noted example of
aperiodic tiling is a set of Wang tiles, whose nonexistence Wang had once conjectured, discovered by
Robert Berger in 1966. He also chronicled
Kurt Gödel's philosophical ideas and authored several books on the subject.
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