Benedikt Löwe | |
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Born | 1972 |
Fields | Mathematics, Logic |
Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
Doctoral advisor | Ronald Jensen, Donald Anthony Martin |
Doctoral students | Stefan Bold Ioanna M. Dimitriou H. Daisuke Ikegami Yurii Khomskii Eva Müller-Hill Brian Semmes Sara L. Uckelman |
Known for | Descriptive Set Theory |
Benedikt Löwe (born 1972) is a German mathematician and logician, and Professor at the University of Hamburg, known for initiating the interdisciplinary conference "Foundations of the Formal Sciences" (FotFS) in 1999.
Löwe received his BA in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and continued his studies at the University of Tübingen, the University of Berlin and Berkeley. In 2001 he completed his PhD entitled Blackwell Determinacy about determinacy under supervision of Donald A. Martin and Ronald Björn Jensen. Since early 2000 he is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and since late 2000s also Professor at the University of Hamburg. He is managing editor of the journal Mathematical Logic Quarterly. and the journal Computability, and editor at the journals Journal of Logic, Language and Information and Tbilisi Mathematical Journal.
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