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Set Theorist Ronald Jensen wins 2003 Steele Prize

PROVIDENCE, RI---Ronald B. Jensen of the Humboldt Universitaet 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.

Further information about AMS prizes may be found at
http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

  Founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship, the
30,000-member American Mathematical Society fulfills its mission through
programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses,
strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation
of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday
life.