Alex Wilkie

Alex Wilkie
Wilkie, pictured in 2007
Born
Alex James Wilkie

1948 (age 75–76)
Northampton, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity College London
Bedford College, University of London
Known forWilkie's theorem
AwardsKarp Prize (1993)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2001)
Pólya Prize (LMS) (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Model theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Doctoral advisorWilfrid Hodges

Alex James Wilkie FRS (born 1948 in Northampton[1]) is a British mathematician known for his contributions to model theory and logic. Previously Reader in Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford, he was appointed to the Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of Manchester in 2007.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Wilkie, Alex James, Who's Who in Education, Inglewood Books, 2003
  2. ^ Homepage of Alex Wilkie at Manchester
  3. ^ Alex Wilkie at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Alex Wilkie publications indexed by Microsoft Academic