Authors
V.B. TARASOV
Abstract
World science suffered a serious loss: on September 6, 2017 in Berkeley (USA, California) on the 97th year the great scientist of our time, the founder of a number of major scientific fields in applied mathematics, automatic control theory, computer science and artificial intelligence, Professor Lotfie Zadeh passed away. He entered into a cohort of very few pioneering scientists who generate new, original scientific ideas and form the basic scientific paradigms that change our world. Professor L. Zade was the founder of the theory of fuzzy sets and linguistic variables, the “father” of fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning, the author of the theory of possibility and the general theory of uncertainty, the creator of the theory of Z-numbers and generalized constraints, the ancestor of granular and soft calculations. His ideas and theories not only opened a new era in the development of scientific thought, free from the limitations of narrow scientific areas and contributing to their synergy. They made a significant contribution to the development of new information and cognitive technologies, led to the creation of effective industrial technologies, such as fuzzy computers and processors, fuzzy controllers, fuzzy clustering and recognition systems, and many others.
Keywords
Professor Lotfi Zadeh, fuzzy sets, uncertainty theory, Z-number theory, generalized constraints, soft calculations
