Ronald B. Jensen Receives 2003 AMS Steele Prize

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January 16, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI---Ronald B. Jensen of the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, Germany, is receiving the 2003 AMS Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research. Presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland.

Professor Jensen is being honored for his paper "The fine structure of the constructible hierarchy" (Annals of Mathematical Logic 4 (1972) 229-308), which has been of seminal importance for two different directions of research in contemporary set theory: the inner model program and the use of combinatorial principles of the sort that Jensen established for the constructible universe.

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