Richard Shore
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Richard Shore

American mathematician (born 1946)

Richard Arnold Shore (born August 18, 1946) is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University who works in recursion theory. He is particularly known for his work on2

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Born Aug 18, 1946.1

About

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, the partial order of the Turing degrees.

Shore settled the Rogers homogeneity conjecture by showing that there are Turing degrees

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Companies

Early life and education

  • 1968Harvard University Bachelor of Arts3 4
  • 1972Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doctor of Philosophy3 4

Career

Occupation: university teacher, logician, mathematician.8

He was, in 1983, an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw and gave a talk The Degrees of Unsolvability: the Ordering of Functions by Relative Computability. In 2009, he was the Gödel Lecturer (Reverse mathematics: the playground of logic). He was an editor from 1984 to 1993 of the Journal of Symbolic Logic and from 1993 to 2000 of the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States9

Awards

  • 2013Fellow of the American Mathematical Society10 11
  • 2009Gödel Lecturer10