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Steve Awodey in 2011
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Born | 1959 (age 57–58) |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Thesis | Logic in Topoi: Functorial Semantics for Higher-Order Logic (1997) |
Doctoral advisors |
Saunders Mac Lane William Walker Tait |
Doctoral students | Spencer Breiner, Jonas Eliasson, Henrik Forssell, Jesse Hughes, Matthew Jackson, Kohei Kishida, Peter Lumsdaine, Michael Warren |
Website www |
Steve Awodey (born 1959) is a Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University.
Awodey studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Marburg and the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. from Chicago under Saunders Mac Lane in 1997. He is an active researcher in the areas of category theory and logic, and has also written on the philosophy of mathematics. He is one of the originators of the field of homotopy type theory. He was a member of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2012–13.