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Lou van den Dries (Laurentius Petrus Dignus van den Dries) was born on 26 May, 1951 in Ens, Netherlands, is a Dutch mathematician. Discover Lou van den Dries's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Laurentius Petrus Dignus van den Dries
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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 26 May, 1951
Birthday 26 May
Birthplace Ens, Netherlands
Nationality Netherlands

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1951

Laurentius Petrus Dignus "Lou" van den Dries (born May 26, 1951) is a Dutch mathematician working in model theory.

He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

1969

Van den Dries began his undergraduate studies in 1969 at Utrecht University, and in 1978 completed his PhD there under the supervision of Dirk van Dalen with a dissertation entitled Model Theory of Fields.

1982

Van den Dries was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in the 1982–1983 academic year.

1986

He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1986 and became a professor in its Center for Advanced Study in 1998.

In 2021, van den Dries retired and became a professor emeritus.

Van den Dries is most known for his seminal work in o-minimality, but 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.

1990

Van den Dries 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.

1993

Van den Dries has been a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993.

2004

Since 2004, employees of the state of Illinois, including University of Illinois faculty, are required by the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act to complete ethics training annually.

2006

From 2006 to 2009, van den Dries refused to complete this training, arguing that

mandatory ethics training for adults is an Orwellian concept and has no place in a civil and free society.

It is Big Brother reducing us to the status of children.

Symptoms: monitoring of the test taking, the 'award' of a diploma for passing the test.

It betrays a totalitarian urge on those in power to infantilize the rest of us.

An unfortunate byproduct of the computer revolution is that it has given new tools in the hands of unwise rulers to annoy us for no good reason.

Rather than go meekly along, we should vigorously protest and resist whenever demeaning schemes like ethics training rear their ugly head.

Eventually, van den Dries settled with the Illinois Executive Ethics Commission, which enforces the ethics act, for a $500 fine, noting that "while many of my colleagues agree that this ethics training is a big waste of time and money, they didn't really take the steps I took in trying to fight it. So without active support from my colleagues, it became too time consuming and costly (lawyers fees) to continue my resistance."

Van den Dries was the first state employee to be fined by the Illinois Executive Ethics Commission for failing to complete the mandatory training.

2016

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.

2018

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".