Jeremy Avigad | |
|---|---|
 Avigad in 2021 | |
| Born | January 9, 1968 |
| Education | |
| Doctoral advisor | Jack Silver |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Main interests | Logic,philosophy of mathematics,proof theory,formal verification |
| Website | www |
Jeremy Avigad is a professor of philosophy and a professor of mathematical sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
He received a B.A. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1989,and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995 under the supervision of Jack Silver. [1] He has contributed to the areas of mathematical logic and foundations,formal verification and interactive theorem proving,and the philosophy and history of mathematics. [2] He became Director of the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University after cryptocurrency entrepreneur Charles Hoskinson donated $20 million in September 2021 to establish it. [3] [4]
