Jack Silver

Jack Silver
Jack Silver in 1986
(photo by George Bergman)
Born
Jack Howard Silver

(1942-04-23)April 23, 1942
Missoula, Montana, U.S.
DiedDecember 22, 2016(2016-12-22) (aged 74)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forSilver forcing
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Thesis Some Applications of Model Theory in Set Theory  (1966)
Doctoral advisor
Robert Lawson Vaught
Doctoral students
Jeremy Avigad
John P. Burgess
Randall Dougherty
Martin Goldstern
Concha Gómez
Richard Zach

Jack Howard Silver (23 April 1942 – 22 December 2016) was an American set theorist and logician at the University of California, Berkeley. Silver made several contributions to set theory in the areas of large cardinals and the constructible universe L.

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