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Yugoslavian mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stevo Todorčević FRSC (Serbian Cyrillic: Стево Тодорчевић; born February 9, 1955), is a Yugoslavian mathematician specializing in mathematical logic and set theory. He holds a Canada Research Chair in mathematics at the University of Toronto,[1][2] and a director of research position at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris.
Stevo Todorčević | |
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Born | February 9, 1955 69) | (age
Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
Awards | Balkan Mathematical Society First Prize 1980, 1982 CRM-Fields-PIMS 2012 Shoenfield 2013 Gödel Lecturers 2016 |
Scientific career | |
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Institutions | University of Toronto CNRS |
Thesis | Results and Independence Proofs in Combinatorial Set Theory (1979) |
Doctoral advisor | Đuro Kurepa |
Doctoral students |
Todorčević was born in Ubovića Brdo. As a child he moved to Banatsko Novo Selo,[3] and went to school in Pančevo.[4] At Belgrade University, he studied pure mathematics, attending lectures by Đuro Kurepa. He began graduate studies in 1978, and wrote his doctoral thesis in 1979 with Kurepa as his advisor.[5]
Todorčević's work involves mathematical logic, set theory, and their applications to pure mathematics.
In Todorčević's 1978 master’s thesis, he constructed a model of MA + ¬wKH in a way to allow him to make the continuum any regular cardinal, and so derived a variety of topological consequences. Here MA is an abbreviation for Martin's axiom and wKH stands for the weak Kurepa Hypothesis.[6] In 1980, Todorčević and Abraham proved the existence of rigid Aronszajn trees and the consistency of MA + the negation of the continuum hypothesis + there exists a first countable S-space.[7]
Todorčević is the winner of
He was selected by the Association for Symbolic Logic as their 2016 Gödel Lecturer.[11]
He became a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts as of 1991 and a full member of the Academy in 2009.[12] In 2016 Todorčević became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[13]
Todorčević has been described as "the greatest Serbian mathematician" since the time of Mihailo Petrović Alas.[14]
Todorčević is the author of several books in mathematics, including:
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