Robin Gandy

Robin Gandy
Born
Robin Oliver Gandy

(1919-09-22)22 September 1919
Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire, England
Died20 November 1995(1995-11-20) (aged 76)
Oxford, England
EducationAbbotsholme School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
Known forRecursion theory
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical logic
Institutions
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Leicester
  • University of Leeds
  • Stanford University
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Oxford
ThesisOn Axiomatic Systems in Mathematics and Theories in Physics (1953)
Doctoral advisor
Alan Turing
Doctoral students

Robin Oliver Gandy (22 September 1919 – 20 November 1995) was a British mathematician and logician. He was a friend, student, and associate of Alan Turing, having been supervised by Turing during his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where they worked together.

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