Lou van den Dries
Laurentius Petrus Dignus "Lou" van den Dries (* 1951 ) is a Dutch mathematical logician.
Lou van den Dries received his doctorate in 1978 under Dirk van Dalen at the University of Utrecht ( Model theory of fields ). In 1982/83 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .
Lou van den Dries applied model theory methods to other areas of mathematics and in the early 1990s created the concept of the O-minimal model (O-minimality), which generalizes the properties of real numbers. He made contributions to the model theory of analytical functions and p-adic numbers, decidability for algebraic numbers and logic for finite fields.
In 1990 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto (The logic of local fields). He was selected as a Tarski Lecturer in 2017. He was invited speaker at the ICM 2018 (with Matthias Aschenbrenner, Joris van der Hoeven : On numbers, germs, and transseries). In 2018 van den Dries received the Karp Prize .
He is editor of the Illinois Journal of Mathematics and the Journal of Symbolic Logic.
Matthias Aschenbrenner is one of his doctoral students .
Fonts
- Tame topology and o-minimal structures, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes 248, Cambridge University Press 1998
- Editor with H. Dugald Macpherson: Model theory in algebra, analysis and arithmetic: Cetraro, Italy 2012, Lecture notes in mathematics 2111, Springer 2014
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lou van den Dries in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Arxiv
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dries, Lou van den |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dries, Laurentius Petrus Dignus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematical logician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |