Jeff Paris | |
|---|---|
Jeffrey Bruce Paris | |
 Jeff Paris in Berkeley, California | |
| Born | 15 November 1944[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Known for | |
| Awards | Whitehead Prize (1983) FBA (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical logic |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
| Thesis | Large Cardinals and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Gandy[2] |
| Website | oldwww |
Jeffrey Bruce "Jeff" Paris, FBA (; born 15 November 1944) is a British mathematician and Professor of Logic in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
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 is 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][9]
Personal life
Paris was married to Malvyn Loraine Blackburn until 1983 when he married Alena Vencovská. He has three sons and three daughters including runner Jasmin Paris.[10]
References
- ^ a b "PARIS, Prof. Jeffrey Bruce". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
- ^ Jeff Paris at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 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.
- ^ Kirby, L.; Paris, J. (1982). "Accessible Independence Results for Peano Arithmetic" (PDF). Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 14 (4): 285. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.107.3303. doi:10.1112/blms/14.4.285.
- ^ 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
- ^ Paris, J. B.; Kirby, L. A. S. (1978). "?n-Collection Schemas in Arithmetic". Logic Colloquium '77. Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics. 96. p. 199. doi:10.1016/S0049-237X(08)72003-2. ISBN 9780444851789.
- ^ Jeff Paris's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ List of publications from Microsoft Academic
- ^ "Elections to Ordinary Fellowship". Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved 2007.
- ^ "Who's who 2019 Paris, Prof. Jeffrey Bruce". 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U30030. Retrieved 2019. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help)
 | This article about a United Kingdom mathematician is a stub. You can help popflock.com resource by . |
This article uses material from the Wikipedia page available here. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.