Lou van den Dries, Date of Birth

Lou van den Dries

Dutch mathematician

Date of Birth: 26-May-1951

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Laurentius Petrus Dignus "Lou" van den Dries (born May 26, 1951) is a Dutch mathematician working in model theory.
He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He completed his PhD at Utrecht University in 1978 under the supervision of Dirk van Dalen with a dissertation entitled Model Theory of Fields.Van den Dries is most known for his seminal work in o-minimality.
He has also made contributions to the model theory of p-adic fields, valued fields, and finite fields, and to the study of transseries.
With Alex Wilkie, he improved Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth using nonstandard methods. Van den Dries has been a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993.
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1990 and 2018, and delivered the Tarski Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017.
He was awarded the Shoenfield Prize from the Association for Symbolic Logic in 2016 for his chapter "Lectures on the Model Theory of Valued Fields" in Model Theory in Algebra, Analysis and Arithmetic, edited by Dugald Macpherson and Carlo Toffalori.
Van den Dries was jointly awarded the 2018 Karp Prize with Matthias Aschenbrenner and Joris van der Hoeven "for their work in model theory, especially on asymptotic differential algebra and the model theory of transseries."His doctoral students include Matthias Aschenbrenner.