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Carol Karp

lived from 1926 to 1972

Carol Karp was an American mathematical logician whose research was closely linked to algebra. She made a reputation both as a teacher and researcher, and she was undertaking important work on infinitary logic and recursion theory when she died at the age of 46.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Karp/