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Robert Irving Soare is an American mathematician
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. He is the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago
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, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. He proved, together with Carl Jockusch, the low basis theorem, and has done other work in mathematical logic
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, primarily in the area of computability theory
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. His doctoral students at the University of Chicago have included Barbara Csima.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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.retrieved 2013-07-26.
Selected publications
* * * C. G. Jockusch Jr. and R. I. Soare, "Π(0, 1) Classes and Degrees of Theories" in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (1972)./sup>
See also
* Jockusch–Soare forcingReferences
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