Jeff Paris

Jeff Paris
Jeff Paris in Berkeley, California
Native name	Jeffrey Bruce Paris
Born	(1944-11-15) 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]
Doctoral students	Richard Booth Costas Dimitracopoulos Lee Hill Marcus Hill Hykel Hosni[3] Richard Kaye Malte Kließ[4] Kevin Knight Ian Maung Chris Nix Soroush Rafiee Rad[2]
Known for	Paris–Harrington theorem Kirby–Paris theorem
Notable awards	Whitehead Prize (1983) FBA (1999)
Website www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~jeff

Jeffrey Bruce Paris (/ˈpærɪs/; born 1944) is British a 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]

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