Leo Harrington
Mathematician, Academic
1946 –
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Who is Leo Harrington?
Leo Anthony Harrington is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in recursion theory, model theory, and set theory.
Harrington and Jeff Paris proved the Paris–Harrington theorem.
Harrington showed that if the Axiom of Determinacy holds for all analytic sets then x# exists for all reals x.
Harrington and Saharon Shelah showed that the first order theory of the partially ordered set of recursively enumerable Turing degrees is undecidable.
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- Born
- May 17, 1946
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
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on July 23, 2013
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