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Details for Professor Philip Welch
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| Name | Professor Philip Welch | ||||||||
| Job title | Professor of Pure Mathematics |
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| Department | School of Mathematics University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BSc(Lond), MSc, DPhil(Oxon) | ||||||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | London Mathematical Society Association for Symbolic Logic |
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| Keywords | axiomatic set theory mathematical logic set theory mathematical philosophy models of computation |
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| Areas of expertise | Axiomatic Set Theory: strong axioms of infinity & large cardinals; interactions with the determinacy assumptions on infinite perfect information games; singular cardinal combinatorics. Applications of mathematical logic and set theory to: philosophical logic (theories of truth; possible world semantics; mathematical philosophy and philosophy of science) and to: the theory of generalised inductive definitions; models of computation. |
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| Media experience | Radio & TV interview. |
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