Editing Lotfi A. Zadeh (section)

=== Azerbaijan ===
Zadeh was born in [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan SSR]],<!--DO NOT ADD "SOVIET UNION" HERE, PLEASE READ FOOTNOTE--><ref>At this time, the [[Azerbaijan SSR]] was an independent republic, created by the [[Red Army]]. It would become part of the [[Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic]] in March 1922, and then part of the [[Soviet Union]] in December 1922.</ref> as '''Lotfi Aliasgerzadeh'''.<ref name=FL17>[[#McNeil|McNeil & Freiberger]], p. 17</ref> His father was Rahim Aleskerzade, an [[Iranian Azerbaijanis|Iranian Muslim Azerbaijani]]<ref>Blair, Betty (winter 1994) "Interview with Lotfi Zadeh" Azerbaijan International. "Obstinacy and tenacity. Not being afraid to get embroiled in controversy. That's very much a Turkish tradition. That's part of my character, too"
http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/24_folder/24_articles/24_fuzzylogic.html</ref> journalist from [[Ardabil]] on assignment from Iran, and his mother was Fanya (Feyga<ref name="visions.az-Samad-Zadeh">{{cite magazine |last1=Samad |first1=Mohbaddin |title=A Phenomenon in Modern Science or Who Are You Lotfi Zadeh? |url=http://www.visions.az/en/news/49/2bbd742d/ |access-date=30 November 2021 |magazine=Visions of Azerbaijan Magazine |volume=4 |issue=2 |date=Summer 2009 |language=en |quote=...mother Feyga and wife Faina...wife Faina, son Norman and daughter Stella...mother Feyga, father Rahim...(Mohbaddin Samad is the screen writer of the documentary film Far and Near Lotfi Zadeh (in Azerbaijani and English) and the author of a book about Lotfi Zadeh, The World Cannot Survive Without Geniuses)}}</ref>) Korenman, a [[Jewish]] [[pediatrician]] from [[Odesa, Ukraine]], who was an Iranian citizen.<ref name="ScienceDirect.com 2015">{{cite journal |title=Fuzzy logic—a personal perspective |date=2015-05-21 |doi=10.1016/j.fss.2015.05.009 |volume=281 |pages=4–20 |journal=Fuzzy Sets and Systems| last1=Zadeh |first1=Lotfi A.}}</ref><ref>[http://www.jinfo.org/Computer_Info_Science.html "Jews in Computer & Information Science"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513125715/http://www.jinfo.org/Computer_Info_Science.html |date=2013-05-13 }} on the JINFO.org website</ref><ref>[http://alamjurnal.com/stati/262-zhanet-selimova Анвар Унугви "Жанет Селимова"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714193842/http://alamjurnal.com/stati/262-zhanet-selimova |date=2014-07-14 }} (Memoirs of Lotfi A. Zadeh's cousin in Baku, theatrical director, professor Zhanet Selimova).</ref><ref name=bookrags>Gale, Thomson. [http://www.bookrags.com/biography/lotfi-asker-zadeh-wcs/ Lotfi Asker Zadeh Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115180256/http://www.bookrags.com/biography/lotfi-asker-zadeh-wcs/ |date=2010-01-15 }} ''World of Computer Science''</ref> The Soviet government at this time courted foreign correspondents, and the family lived well while in Baku.<ref name=FL18>[[#McNeil|McNeil & Freiberger]], p. 18</ref> Zadeh attended elementary school for three years there,<ref name=FL18 /> which he said "had a significant and long-lasting influence on my thinking and my way of looking at things."<ref name=blair99>{{cite magazine | last1 = Blair | first1 = Betty | date = Winter 1994 | url = https://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/74_folder/74.articles/74_zadeh.html | title = Famous People: Then and Now {{!}} Lotfi Zadeh | magazine = [[Azerbaijan International]] | pages = 28–29 | volume = 2 | issue = 4 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231208181813/https://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/74_folder/74.articles/74_zadeh.html | archive-date = 2023-12-08 | access-date = 2024-02-06 | issn = 1075-086X | quote = What experiences and interests in childhood would you say shaped your life and career? I went through the first three grades of elementary school in Baku. Those three years - from age 7 to 10 - had a significant and long-lasting influence on my thinking and my way of looking at things.}}</ref>