Laurence Kirby
Laurence AS Kirby (also Laurie Kirby ; * 1952 ) is a British mathematician who deals with mathematical logic.
Kirby grew up in Hong Kong and England , studied at Cambridge University and received his PhD from Manchester University in 1977 . He then went to Paris and Princeton (where he taught for three years from 1978) before becoming a professor at Baruch College at the City University of New York from 1982 .
Kirby is best known for his work with Jeff Paris on undecidable sentences in Peano arithmetic from 1982. They proved that a sentence by Reuben Goodstein in it cannot be proven or refuted.
Kirby plays violin in classical music and publicly as TG Vanini in the folk-rock group The Princes of Serendip with Don Yacullo (piano) and his wife Julie Parisi Kirby (vocals), with whom he also made records.
Web links
- Homepage as a mathematician
- Kirby as a musician
- The Princes of Serendip
- Yarg The secret life of Professor Kirby
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirby, Laurence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirby, Laurie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |