Richard Montague | |
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 Richard Montague, at UCLA, c. 1967 | |
| Born | September 20, 1930 |
| Died | March 7, 1971 (aged 40) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | Contributions to the Axiomatic Foundations of Set Theory (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Tarski |
| Doctoral students | Nino Cocchiarella Hans Kamp |
Main interests | Mathematics (axiomatic set theory, model theory), philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language |
Notable ideas | Formal semantics, Montague grammar |
Richard Merritt Montague (September 20, 1930 – March 7, 1971) was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. He is known for proposing Montague grammar to formalize the semantics of natural language. As a student of Alfred Tarski, he also contributed early developments to axiomatic set theory (ZFC). For the latter half of his life, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles until his early death, believed to be a homicide, at age 40.