Education
He attended New College, Oxford (1959-1965), where he received degrees in both Literae Humaniores and (Christianic) Theology.
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Wilfrid Hodges
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Career
Hodges was Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London from 1987 to 2006, and is the author of numerous books on logic. In 1970 he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis in Logic. He lectured in both Philosophy and Mathematics at Bedford College, University of London.
He has held visiting appointments in the department of philosophy at the University of California and in the department of mathematics at University of Colorado.
Wilfrid Hodges" books are written in an informal style. The "Notes on Notation" in his book "Model theory" end with the following characteristic sentence: "I" means I, "we" means western
When this 780-page book appeared in 1993, it became one of the standard textbooks on model theory. Due to its success an abbreviated version (but with a new chapter on stability theory) was published as a paperback.
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British Academy; Association for Logic, Language and Information. International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
