Harvey Friedman
Mathematician, Award Winner
1948 –
Who is Harvey Friedman?
Harvey Friedman is a mathematical logician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He has worked on reverse mathematics, a project intended to derive the axioms of mathematics from the theorems considered to be necessary. In recent years this has advanced to a study of Boolean relation theory, which attempts to justify large cardinal axioms by demonstrating their necessity for deriving certain propositions considered "concrete".
Friedman earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967, with a dissertation on Subsystems of Analysis. His advisor was Gerald Sacks. Friedman received the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1984. He delivered the Tarski Lectures in 2007.
In 1967, Friedman was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world's youngest professor when he taught at Stanford University at age 18 as an assistant professor of philosophy. He has also been a professor of mathematics and a professor of music. He officially retired in July of 2012.
Friedman is the brother of mathematician Sy Friedman.
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- Born
- Sep 23, 1948
Chicago - Also known as
- Harvey M. Friedman
- Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics
( - 1967)
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Ohio State University
- Lived in
- Columbus
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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