Lotfi A. Zadeh

Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (; ; ; February 4, 1921 – September 6, 2017) was an Azerbaijani-born American mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Zadeh was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. His parents had the Iranian nationality, and his mother was of Russian-Jewish descent.
The family moved to Iran when he was ten years old. He moved to the United States in 1943-1944.
He studied at the University of Tehran and Columbia University. He is married to Fay Zadeh and they had two children.
He was best known for proposing the fuzzy mathematics relating of those fuzzy related concepts such as fuzzy logic. He was a founding member of Eurasian Academy.
Zadeh died on September 6, 2017 in Berkeley, California at the age of 96.