Richard Matthews

Email: mmrmam@leeds.ac.uk
Thesis title: Large cardinals in weakened axiomatic theories
Supervisors: Professor Michael Rathjen, Dr Andrew Brooke-Taylor

Profile

I completed a masters degree in Mathematics at the University of Bristol before moving to Leeds to start a PhD in October 2017, under the supervision of Michael Rathjen and Andrew Brooke-Taylor, which I completed in 2021. I am now a Research Associate at the University of Leeds, and my staff profile canbe found here

Preprints:

Taking Reinhardt’s Power Away https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01127.

Links to talks and slides:

Embeddings of ZFC without Power Set, Set Theory in the UK 5, February 2020
Constructing the Constructible Universe Constructively, Leeds Virtual Seminar, July 2020
Taking Reinhardt's Power Away, CUNY Set Theory Seminar, October 2020
Playing Jenga with Infinite Cardinals, Londom Mathematical Society Virtual Graduate Student Meeting, November 2020
Big Classes and Class Forcings, Prikry Forcing Online, December 2020
Taking Reinhardt's Power Away, Barcelona Set Theory Seminar, January 2021
Ordinal Oddities, Leeds-Ghent Virtual Logic Seminar, February 2021

Research interests

Set Theory, in particular:

Axiomatic Set Theory
Large Cardinal Axioms
Set Theory Without the Power Set
Intuitionistic Set Theory
Choiceless Set Theory

Qualifications

MSci Mathematics, University of Bristol

Research groups and institutes

Logic