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Leo Harrington

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Leo Harrington
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Leo Anthony Harrington (born May 17, 1946) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in recursion theory, model theory, and set theory. Having retired from being a Mathematician, Professor Leo Harrington is now a Philosopher.[citation needed]

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His notable results include proving the Paris–Harrington theorem along with Jeff Paris,[1] showing that if the axiom of determinacy holds for all analytic sets then x# exists for all reals x,[2] and proving with Saharon Shelah that the first-order theory of the partially ordered set of recursively enumerable Turing degrees is undecidable.[3]

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