User:Hans Adler/Anand Pillay

Anand Pillay (born 19..) is a British mathematician. He is a Professor of mathematics at the University of Leeds. He has been involved in many seminal developments in stability theory, an area of model theory that is close to algebra.

Research
A search for his publications on Mathematical Reviews returns more than 150 hits, an unusually high number for his area of research. His first book, "An Introduction to Stability Theory" (1983), was influenced by the French school, which tried to simplify Saharon Shelah's notion of "forking" by describing it in terms of "heirs" and "coheirs". His notion of "normality" was generalized by Andrew H. Lachlan to "weak normality", an important notion now known as "1-basedness". In joint work with Charles Steinhorn and Julia Knight he lay the foundations for a purely model-theoretic study of linearly ordered algebraic structures such as real closed fields. Their three articles on the subject are still among the most widely cited in the field (which received its own MSC class in 2000: "03C64 – Model theory of ordered structures; o-minimality").


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