Jeff Paris (mathematician)

Jeff Paris in Berkeley

Jeffrey Bruce Paris (born 1944) is a British mathematician known for his work on mathematical logic, in particular provability in arithmetic, uncertain reasoning and inductive logic with an emphasis on rationality and common sense principles.

He is professor of logic at the University of Manchester and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1999.[1]

He gained his doctorate under Robin Gandy at Manchester in 1969 with a dissertation entitled Large Cardinals and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis.

References

• Paris, J. and Harrington, L.: A mathematical incompleteness in Peano Arithmetic. In Handbook for Mathematical Logic (ed. J. Barwise), pp. 1133–1142. Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland, 1977.
• Kirby, L. and Paris, J.: Accessible independence results for Peano arithmetic, Bulletin London Mathematical Society, 14 (1982), pp. 285–93.
• Paris J.B.: The uncertain reasoner's companion: a mathematical perspective, Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science 39, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0521460891

See also

• Paris–Harrington theorem
• Kirby–Paris theorem

External links

• Jeff Paris' home page at the University of Manchester
• Jeff Paris at the Mathematics Genealogy Project