# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lotfi-a-zadeh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:12:11.832Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/lotfi-a-zadeh"
name: "Lotfi A. Zadeh"
slug: "lotfi-a-zadeh"
description: "Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. \nZadeh is best known for proposing fuzzy mathematics, consisting of several fuzzy-related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information.\nZadeh was a founding member of the Eurasian Academy."
tagline: "American electrical engineer and computer scientist (1921–2017)"
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birthDate: "1921-02-04"
deathDate: "2017-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump