Jeff Paris
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| Native name | Jeffrey Bruce Paris |
| Born | 15 November 1944 [1] |
| Fields | Mathematical logic |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
| Thesis | Large Cardinals and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Gandy[2] |
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| Notable awards | Whitehead Prize (1983) FBA (1999) |
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Jeffrey Bruce Paris (/ˈpærɪs/; born 1944) is a British mathematician and Professor of Logic in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Education
Paris gained his doctorate under Robin Gandy at Manchester in 1969 with a dissertation entitled Large Cardinals and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis.
Research
Paris known for his work on mathematical logic, in particular provability in arithmetic, uncertain reasoning and inductive logic with an emphasis on rationality and common sense principles.
Awards and honours
Paris was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1999.[1][11]
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jeff Paris at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ↑ Paris, J. and Harrington, L.: A mathematical incompleteness in Peano Arithmetic. In Handbook of Mathematical Logic (ed. J. Barwise), pp. 1133–1142. Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland, 1977.
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- ↑ Paris J.B.: The uncertain reasoner's companion: a mathematical perspective, Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science 39, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-46089-1
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- ↑ Jeff Paris's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- ↑ http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/review/01-9899/05-fellowship.html[dead link]
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