Menachem Magidor
Menachem Magidor | |
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Large cardinal property | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Hebrew University |
| Doctoral advisor | Azriel Lévy |
| Doctoral students | Moti Gitik |
President of the DLMPST/IUHPST | |
| In office 2016–2019 | |
| Preceded by | Elliott Sober |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Cartwright |
Menachem Magidor (
set theory. He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was president of the Association for Symbolic Logic
from 1996 to 1998 and as president of the
Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science (DLMPST/IUHPS) from 2016 to 2019. In 2016 he was elected an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018 he received the Solomon Bublick Award.
Biography
Menachem Magidor was born in
Ph.D. in 1973 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His thesis, On Super Compact Cardinals, was written under the supervision of Azriel Lévy.[1] He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1997 to 2009, following Hanoch Gutfreund and succeeded by Menachem Ben-Sasson.[2] The Oxford philosopher Ofra Magidor
is his daughter.
Mathematical theories
Magidor obtained several important consistency results on powers of
ultrapowers
. He proved consistent that is strong limit, but . He even strengthened the condition that is strong limit to that 
generalised continuum hypothesis
holds below . This constituted a negative solution to the primitive recursive
closed set of ordinals is the union of countably many sets in .
Selected published works
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- Magidor, Menachem (1977). "On the singular cardinals problem. I". .
- Magidor, Menachem (1977). "On the singular cardinals problem. II". JSTOR 1971065.
- JSTOR 1971415.
- JSTOR 2007004.
- .
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Menachem Magidor (mathematician).
- ^ Menachem Magidor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Office of the President | האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem". New.huji.ac.il. 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
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