Ronald Jensen

Ronald Jensen
Ronald Jensen
	Prof. Ronald Jensen giving a lecture during The First European Set Theory Meeting, Będlewo (Poland), July 2007
Born	April 1, 1936
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Bonn
Known for	Set theory, mathematical logic
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Humboldt University of Berlin
Doctoral advisor	Gisbert Hasenjaeger
Doctoral students	Adrian Mathias; Benedikt Löwe

Ronald Björn Jensen (born April 1, 1936) is an American mathematician active in Europe, primarily known for his work in mathematical logic and set theory.

Career

Jensen completed a BA in economics at American University in 1959, and a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Bonn in 1964. His supervisor was Gisbert Hasenjaeger. Jensen taught at Rockefeller University, 1969–71, and the University of California, Berkeley, 1971–73. The balance of his academic career was spent in Europe at the University of Bonn, the University of Oslo, the University of Freiburg, the University of Oxford, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, from which he retired in 2001. He now resides in Berlin.

In 2015 the European Set Theory Society awarded him and John R. Steel the Hausdorff Medal for their paper "K without the measurable".

Jensen's better-known results include the:

Axiomatic set theory NFU, a variant of New Foundations (NF) where extensionality is weakened to allow several sets with no elements, and the proof of NFU's consistency relative to Peano arithmetic;
Fine structure theory of the constructible universe L. This work led to his being awarded in 2003 the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research of the American Mathematical Society for his 1972 paper titled "The fine structure of the constructible hierarchy";
Definitions and proofs of various infinitary combinatorial principles in L, including diamond $\diamondsuit$ , square, and morass;
Jensen's covering theorem for L;
General theory of core models and the construction of the Dodd–Jensen core model;
Consistency of CH plus Suslin's hypothesis.
Technique of coding the universe by a real.

Ronald Jensen, 1969, « On the Consistency of a Slight(?) Modification of Quine's NF », Synthese 19: 250–263. With discussion by Quine. doi:10.1007/BF00568059
The fine structure of the constructible hierarchy, Annals of Mathematical Logic, vol 4, Issue 3, August 1972, pp. 229–308 doi:10.1016/0003-4843(72)90001-0
with Anthony J. Dodd: The core model, Annals of Mathematical Logic, vol 20, 1981, pp. 43–75. doi:10.1016/0003-4843(81)90011-5
with Anthony J. Dodd: The covering lemma for K, Annals of Mathematical Logic, vol 22, 1982, pp. 1–30. doi:10.1016/0003-4843(82)90013-4
Inner models and large cardinals. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic vol 1, Issue 4 (1995): 393-407. doi:10.2307/421129
with John R. Steel: K without the measurable, The Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol 78, Issue 3, 2013, pp. 708–734. doi:10.2178/jsl.7803020

Modelle der Mengenlehre. Widerspruchsfreiheit und Unabhängigkeit der Kontinuumshypothese und des Auswahlaxioms. (Lecture Notes in Mathematics; vol. 37). Springer, Berlin 1967.
as editor with Alexander Pestel: Set theory and model theory: proceedings of an informal symposium held at Bonn, June 1–3, 1979. Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981.
with Aaron Beller and Philip Welch: Coding the Universe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982, ISBN 0-521-28040-0.[1]

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