Anand Pillay (logician)
Anand Pillay (born May 7, 1951 ) is a British logician who deals with model theory and its applications in algebra, number theory.
Pillay studied at Oxford University (Bachelor in Mathematics and Philosophy 1973 at Balliol College) and at the University of London , where he received his Master’s degree in Mathematics in 1974 and his PhD under Wilfrid Hodges at Bedford College in 1978 ( Gaifman Operations, Minimal Models, and the Number of Countable Models ). As a post-doc, he was a Royal Society Fellow and visiting researcher at the CNRS at the University of Paris VII from 1978 . After lecturing at Manchester University from 1981 and at McGill University in Canada, he was assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame from 1983 , from 1986 as associate professor and from 1988 with a full professorship. From 1996 to 2006 he was Swanlund Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he is now Professor Emeritus. From 2005 he has been on the Chair of Mathematical Logic at the University of Leeds (2005 to 2008 on the Marie Curie Chair of the European Union ). He was visiting scholar at the Fields Institute in Toronto, at the MSRI and at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge.
In his dissertation he dealt with the number of countable models of countable theory and then, under the influence of the Paris School of model theory, with stability theory. Later he dealt with applications of model theory in other areas of mathematics (Nash manifolds and groups, algebraic theory of differential equations and differential algebra, classification of compact complex manifolds, Diophantine geometry).
He was invited speaker at the ICM in Zurich in 1994 (Model theory, differential algebra and number theory). In 2009 he held the Tarski Lectures (Compact Spaces, Definability, and Measures in Model Theory: The Logic Topology / Lie Groups from Nonstandard Models / Measures and Domination). In 2001 he received the Humboldt Foundation Research Award and was also a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Kiel in 1988 and at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1992 . In 2011 he gave the Gödel Lecture . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
Fonts
- Geometric Stability Theory, Oxford University Press 1996
- An introduction to stability theory, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1983, Dover 2008
- with David Marker, M. Messmer: Model theory of fields, Springer 1996
- with Deidre Haskell, Charles Steinhorn (editors): Model theory, algebra and geometry, Cambridge University Press 2000
- Model theory, Notices AMS, December 2000, PDF file
- Model theory and Diophantine Geometry, Bulletin AMS, Vol. 34, 1997, p. 405
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anand Pillay in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| SURNAME | Pillay, Anand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematical logician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1951 |