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==Life== Post was born in [[Augustów]], [[Suwałki Governorate]], [[Congress Poland]], [[Russian Empire]] (now Poland) into a [[Polish Jews|Polish-Jewish]] family that immigrated to New York City in May 1904. His parents were Arnold and Pearl Post.<ref name="MacTutor">{{MacTutor Biography|id=Post}}</ref> Post had been interested in astronomy, but at the age of twelve lost his left arm in a car accident. This loss was a significant obstacle to being a professional astronomer, leading to his decision to pursue mathematics rather than astronomy.<ref>Urquhart (2008), p. 429.</ref> Post attended the [[Townsend Harris High School]] and continued on to graduate from [[City College of New York]] in 1917 with a B.S. in mathematics.<ref name="Urquhart"/> After completing his [[Doctor of philosophy|Ph.D.]] in mathematics in 1920 at [[Columbia University]], supervised by [[Cassius Jackson Keyser]], he did a post-doctorate at [[Princeton University]] in the 1920–1921 academic year. Post then became a high school mathematics teacher in New York City. Post married Gertrude Singer (1900–1956) in 1929, with whom he had a daughter, Phyllis Post Goodman (1932–1995).<ref>{{cite web|title=Phyllis Post Goodman Park|website=NYC Parks|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/phyliss-post-goodman-park/history}}</ref> Post spent at most three hours a day on research on the advice of his doctor in order to avoid manic attacks, which he had been experiencing since his year at Princeton.<ref name="Urquhart 2008, p. 430">Urquhart (2008), p. 430.</ref> In 1936, he was appointed to the mathematics department at the City College of New York. He died in April 1954 of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] following [[Electroconvulsive therapy|electroshock treatment]] for [[Depression (mood)|depression]].<ref name="Urquhart 2008, p. 430"/><ref>{{cite book |editor=Baaz, Matthias |year=2011 |title=Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics: Horizons of Truth |edition=1st |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139498432}}</ref>
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