Jack Silver
Jack Howard Silver (23 April 1942 – 22 December 2016) was a set theorist and logician at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jack Silver | |
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Jack Silver in 1986 (photo by George Bergman) | |
| Born | Jack Howard Silver April 23, 1942 Missoula, Montana |
| Died | December 22, 2016 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Silver forcing |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Some Applications of Model Theory in Set Theory (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Lawson Vaught |
| Doctoral students | Jeremy Avigad John P. Burgess Randall Dougherty Martin Goldstern Concha Gómez Richard Zach |
Born in Montana, he earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Berkeley in 1966 under Robert Vaught before taking a position at the same institution the following year. He held an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship from 1970 to 1972. Silver made several contributions to set theory in the areas of large cardinals and the constructible universe L.
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