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I received my Ph. D. in mathematics from Iowa State University in 1963. My specialty was in abstract algebra. That same year I obtained a position in the Mathematics Department at Creighton University. For the first 20 years or so, I carried out a research program in traditional mathematics. In an attempt to reach out to other disciplines, I began collaborating with members of the Health Sciences at Creighton. It was then that I began to feel that some form of mathematics (not probability) dealing with imprecision would be useful in the health sciences. I found a book on fuzzy logic in the library. It seemed to me that this was exactly what I was looking for. However, I did not pursue the matter further at this time. It was later that I more fully appreciated the importance of the ideas of Lotfi Zadeh regarding uncertainty [1].
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Mordeson, J.N. (2013). On Fuzziness in Mathematics. In: Seising, R., Trillas, E., Moraga, C., Termini, S. (eds) On Fuzziness. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 299. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35644-5_4
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