Adrian Mathias
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Université de la Réunion
Adrian Mathias | |
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 Mathias in London, February 2020 | |
| Born | 12 February 1944 |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge Université de la Réunion |
| Doctoral advisor | Ronald Jensen John Horton Conway |
| Doctoral students | Akihiro Kanamori Thomas Forster |
Adrian Richard David Mathias (born 12 February 1944) is a British mathematician working in set theory. The forcing notion Mathias forcing is named for him.
Mathias was educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics and graduated in 1965. After graduation, he moved to Bonn in Germany where he studied with Ronald Jensen, visiting UCLA, Stanford, the University of Wisconsin, and Monash University during that period.
In 1969, he returned to Cambridge as a research fellow at Peterhouse and was admitted to the Ph.D. at Cambridge University in 1970. From 1969 to 1990, Mathias was a fellow of Peterhouse; during this period, he was the editor of the Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society from 1972 to 1974, spent one academic year (1978/79) as Hochschulassistent to Jensen in Freiburg and another year (1989/90) at the MSRI in Berkeley. After leaving Peterhouse in 1990, Mathias had visiting positions in Warsaw, at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, at the CRM in Barcelona, and in Bogotá, before becoming Professor at the Université de la Réunion. He retired from his professorship in 2012 and was admitted to the higher degree of Doctor of Science at the University of Cambridge in 2015.[1]
