Wang, Hao

Hao Wang, circa 1980s. Photo credit: unknown Years at The Rockefeller University: 1966-1991 Hao Wang (1921-1995) was a Chinese-American logician, philosopher, mathematician, and commentator on Kurt Gödel. One of Wang\u27s most important contributions was the Wang tile.He showed that any Turing machine can be turned into a set of Wang tiles. A philosopher in his own right, Wang also developed a penetrating interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein\u27s later philosophy of mathematics, which he called anthropologism. He chronicled Kurt Gödel\u27s philosophical ideas and authored several books on the subject, thereby providing contemporary scholars with many insights elucidating Gödel\u27s later philosophical thought. See also Hao Wang as Philosopher and Interpreter of Gödel and Interview with Hao Wang and Robin Gandyhttps://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/faculty-members/1109/thumbnail.jp