Menachem Magidor | |
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 Magidor in 2006 | |
| Born | January 24, 1946 Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University |
| Known for | Mathematical logic, Set theory, Large cardinal property |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Hebrew University |
| Doctoral advisor | Azriel Lévy |
| Doctoral students | |
| President of the ASL | |
| In office 1996–1998 | |
| Preceded by | George Boolos |
| Succeeded by | Donald A. Martin |
| President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| In office 1997–2009 | |
| Preceded by | Hanoch Gutfreund |
| Succeeded by | Menachem Ben-Sasson |
| President of the DLMPST/IUHPST | |
| In office 2016–2019 | |
| Preceded by | Elliott Sober |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Cartwright |
Menachem Magidor (Hebrew: מנחם מגידור; born January 24, 1946) is an Israeli mathematician who specializes in mathematical logic, in particular set theory. He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was president of the Association for Symbolic Logic from 1996 to 1998 and as president of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science (DLMPST/IUHPS) from 2016 to 2019. In 2016 he was elected an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018 he received the Solomon Bublick Award.