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Wilfrid Hodges

British mathematician and logician (1941-1988)

Summary

British mathematician and logician (1941-1988)

Field	Value
name	Wilfrid Hodges
image	Wilfried Hodges.jpg
caption	Wilfrid Hodges, 1988 at the MFO
birth_date
field	Model theory
alma_mater	New College, Oxford
doctoral_advisor	John Crossley
doctoral_students	Alex Wilkie
module	{{Infobox officeholder	embed = yes
office1	President of the DLMPST/IUHPST
term_start1	2008
term_end1	2011
predecessor1	Adolf Grünbaum
successor1	Elliott Sober
parents	H. A. Hodges, Vera Joan Willis

Wilfrid Augustine Hodges, FBA (born 27 May 1941) is a British mathematician and logician known for his work in model theory.

Life

Hodges attended New College, Oxford (1959–65), where he received degrees in both Literae Humaniores and (Christianic) Theology. In 1970 he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis in Logic. He lectured in both Philosophy and Mathematics at Bedford College, University of London. He has held visiting appointments in the department of philosophy at the University of California and in the department of mathematics at University of Colorado. Hodges was Professor of Mathematics at 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 British Logic Colloquium, of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information and 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 model theory. Due to its success an abbreviated version (but with a new chapter on stability theory) was published as a paperback.

Bibliography

Only first editions are listed.

References

Leeds, Stephen. (1980). "Review of ''Logic'' by Wilfrid Hodges". Journal of Symbolic Logic.
Baldwin, John T.. (1995). "Review: ''Model Theory'' by Wilfrid Hodges". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.).

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