Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Emil Leon Post (February 11 1897 - April 21 1954) was a Polish-American mathematician and logican. He was born in a Jewish family in Augustow, and died New York City, USA. Emil Leon Post introduced the Post machine in 1936, an abstract computer, independently of the Turing machine. His Post correspondence problem contributed to the decision problems of recursion theory, as a new model of computation. Essential reading Davis, Martin (1964). The Undecidable (Ed.), pp. 228-433. Ravello: Raven Press. ISBN 0-91-121601-4 External links Biography of Post This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.