About Leo Harrington
Born 1946. Leo Harrington is an American mathematician, philosopher and university teacher.
Leo Anthony Harrington (born May 17, 1946) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in computability theory, model theory, and set theory.
His notable results include proving the Paris–Harrington theorem along with Jeff Paris, showing that if the axiom of determinacy holds for all analytic sets then x# exists for all reals x, and proving with Saharon Shelah that the first-order theory of the partially ordered set of computably enumerable Turing degrees is undecidable.
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American mathematician
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Leo Harrington was born on 17 May 1946.
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Leo Harrington is a mathematician, philosopher and university teacher.
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