Robin Oliver Gandy (22 September 1919 – 20 November 1995) was a British mathematician and logician. He was a friend, student, and associate of Alan Turing...
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model. Such an algorithm is said to run in strongly polynomial time. Robin Gandy (1919–1995)—a student of Alan Turing (1912–1954), and his lifelong friend—traces...
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for classical computers was stated by Alan Turing's friend and student Robin Gandy in 1980. A similar thesis was stated by Michael Freedman in an early...
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ISBN 978-1-107-01824-2. Retrieved 3 January 2018. "Wolfson College salutes Robin Gandy on his centenary | Wolfson College, Oxford". 13 October 2020. Archived...
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is also sometimes associated with the beliefs of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robin Gandy, Petr Vopěnka, and Johannes Hjelmslev. Shaughan Lavine has developed...
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servant Ida Gandy (1885–1977), English social worker and author, mother of Robin James Gandy (1619–1689), British portrait painter John Manuel Gandy (1870–1947)...
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indexed by Google Scholar Alan Turing at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Gandy, Robin Oliver (1953). On axiomatic systems in mathematics and theories in physics...
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of Robin Gandy. During the rebuilding of White's in 1787–1788, Gandy came to the notice of architect James Wyatt, who took him into his office. Gandy entered...
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the University of Manchester. Paris gained his doctorate supervised by Robin Gandy at Manchester in 1969 with a dissertation on Large Cardinals and the...
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awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 for research supervised by Robin Gandy. Martin Hyland is best known for his work on category theory applied...
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younger siblings were the mathematician Robin Gandy and Gillian Gandy, a pioneer of neonatal intensive care. Gandy was a diplomat active in Yemen, Libya...
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(collective pseudonym used by a group of Dutch logicians, fl. 1980s–1990s) Robin Gandy (UK, 1919–1995) Sol Garfunkel (US, born 1943) Garlandus Compotista (France...
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accommodation in a scattering of purpose-built blocks, including the Robin Gandy Buildings, and in existing houses on Linton Road, Chadlington Road and...
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the Mathematics Genealogy Project Video interview with Hao Wang and Robin Gandy (and portrait of Wang) Detailed bibliography "A Bibliography of Hao Wang"...
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attempt to better understand the notion of "effective computability" led Robin Gandy (Turing's student and friend) in 1980 to analyze machine computation...
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Thomas Gandy, in 1915. The couple had three children: the diplomat Christopher Gandy, the mathematician Robin Gandy and the physician Gillian Gandy. Ida...
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inapplicable to classical phenomena and macroscopic bodies. The mathematician Robin Gandy recalled Turing's formulation of the quantum Zeno effect in a letter...
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Autograph wartime manuscript of mathematical notes. Left in Turing's will to Robin Gandy. Alan Turing 1944 April 2015 $1.4 $1.02 Geographia Cosmographia First...
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Mangabeira Unger Roberto Refinetti Roberto Torretti Robin Attfield Robin Collins Robin Gandy Robin Hahnel Robin LePoidevin Roboethics Robot Rod Coronado Rod...
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and inventor Peter Crossley-Holland, Ethnomusicologist and composer Robin Gandy, Mathematician Edward James Martin Koppel, British-born American broadcast...
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first formalized in 1965, by Robin Gandy and John Shepherdson. The BLC was registered as a charity in 1978. Robin Gandy John Shepherdson Wilfrid Hodges...
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fair game. A hard look at the premises of Turing's 1936–1937 work led Robin Gandy (1980) to propose his "principles for mechanisms" that throw in the speed...
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local causation as caused ultimately by the speed of light appears in Robin Gandy (1980), "Church's thesis and Principles for Mechanisms", in J. Barwise...
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oriental scholar Anthony Epstein, discovered the Epstein-Barr virus Robin Gandy, mathematician and logician Raymond Hoffenberg, endocrinologist and medical...
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History of the Church–Turing thesis (section Gandy: "machine computation", discrete, deterministic, and limited to "local causation" by light speed)
Church's thesis." Robin Gandy's influential paper titled Church's Thesis and Principles for Mechanisms appears in Barwise et al. Gandy starts off with an...
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the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications, 2000–present. Robin Gandy Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1998-1999. Communications...
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mathematical logic in 1976 and his DPhil in 1979, under the supervision of Robin Gandy. His dissertation was entitled Combinatorial Principles in the Core Model...
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Miron Grindea, literary journalist (born 1909, Romania) 20 November – Robin Gandy, mathematician (born 1919) 21 November Peter Grant, manager of the band...
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Bristol. Scientific career Fields logician, computer scientist, mathematician Institutions University of Edinburgh Doctoral advisor Robin Gandy Dana Scott...
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Systems of Ordinal Functions and Ordinal Notations, was supervised by Robin Gandy. She then became a tutorial fellow in mathematics at Somerville College...
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