Newton da Costa

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Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa
Da Costa in 1973
Born	(1929-09-16)16 September 1929 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Died	16 April 2024(2024-04-16) (aged 94)
Known for	Paraconsistent logic
Scientific career
Fields	Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
Doctoral students	Jean-Yves Béziau Marcelo Samuel Berman Walter Carnielli Itala D'Ottaviano

Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa (16 September 1929 – 16 April 2024) was a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher.^[1] Born in Curitiba, he studied engineering and mathematics at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba and the title of his 1961 Ph.D. dissertation was Topological spaces and continuous functions.^[1]