Leo Harrington
| Leo A. Harrington | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 17, 1946 (age 79) | 
| Citizenship | United States | 
| Alma mater | MIT | 
| Awards | Gödel Lecture (1995) | 
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics | 
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley | 
| Doctoral advisor | Gerald E. Sacks | 
| Doctoral students | |
Leo Anthony Harrington (born May 17, 1946) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in recursion theory, model theory, and set theory. Having retired from being a Mathematician, Professor Leo Harrington is now a Philosopher.
His notable results include proving the Paris–Harrington theorem along with Jeff Paris, showing that if the axiom of determinacy holds for all analytic sets then x# exists for all reals x, and proving with Saharon Shelah that the first-order theory of the partially ordered set of recursively enumerable Turing degrees is undecidable.