I get that this is the New Yorker, but I think it's a stretch to say he invented fuzzy logic. MV-algebras had been around for decades when he published his pape

I get that this is the New Yorker, but I think it's a stretch to say he invented fuzzy logic. MV-algebras had been around for decades when he published his paper, based on Lukasiewicz's work on real valued logic. They come up quite naturally in functional analysis.