Wilfrid Hodges
Wilfrid Hodges | |
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John Crossley | |
| Doctoral students | Alex Wilkie |
President of the DLMPST/IUHPST | |
| In office 2008–2011 | |
| Preceded by | Adolf Grünbaum |
| Succeeded by | Elliott Sober |
Wilfrid Augustine Hodges, FBA (born 27 May 1941) is a British mathematician and logician known for his work in model theory.
Life
Hodges attended
Queen Mary College, University of London from 1987 to 2006 and is the author of books on logic
.
Honors and awards
Hodges was President of the
Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy
.
Writing style
Hodges' books are written in an informal style. The "Notes on Notation" in his book "Model theory" end with the following characteristic sentence:
- 'I' means I, 'we' means we.
When this 780-page book appeared in 1993, it became one of the standard textbooks on
stability theory
) was published as a paperback.
Bibliography
Only first editions are listed.
- Hodges, Wilfrid (1977). Logic – An Introduction to Elementary Logic. Penguin Books.[1]
- Hodges, Wilfrid (1985). Building Models by Games. London Mathematical Society Student Texts. ISBN 9780521268974.
- Hodges, Wilfrid (1993). Model Theory. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. ISBN 0-521-30442-3.[2]
- Hodges, Wilfrid (1997). A Shorter Model Theory. ISBN 0-521-58713-1.
- Chiswell, Ian; Hodges, Wilfrid (2007). Mathematical Logic. ISBN 978-0-19-921562-1.
References
- S2CID 117796294.
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