Karel Prikry
Karel Libor Prikry (Czech: Karel Příkrý, born April 28, 1944 in Chvalkovice , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , now the Czech Republic ) is an American mathematician who deals with axiomatic set theory.
Prikry studied at the University of Warsaw (Magister 1965) and received his doctorate in 1968 from the University of California, Berkeley with Jack Silver ( Changing measurable into accessible cardinals ), where he was research assistant from 1965 to 1968. In 1968 he became an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and in 1972 an associate professor at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis , where he was given a full professorship in 1980.
A forcing method is named after him (prikry forcing). He deals with ultrafilters, consistency and independence results of axiomatic set theory and combinatorial properties of families of sets. With Jack Silver, W. Hugh Woodin , Saharon Shelah , Menachem Magidor , William Mitchell and Moti Gitik he was involved in the negative solution of the conjecture of singular cardinal numbers. Results from him and Silver already flowed into the proof of Silver's theorem .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Silver On the singular cardinals problem , ICM Vancouver 1974
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prikry, Karel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Příkrý, Karel Libor (full name at birth) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chvalkovice |