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Reader in Mathematical Logic

Prof. Jonathan Pila FRS

BScHons (Melbourne, 1984), PhD (Stanford, 1988).
Status
Academic Faculty

Reader in Mathematical Logic

Contact form
+44 1865 273527
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3958-2338
Research groups
  • Mathematical Logic
  • Number Theory

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Research interests

Model theory and number theory.

Research page here with most of my papers in preprint form.

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 2008-2010

Clay Research Award 2011, LMS Senior Whitehead Prize 2011,  Cahit Arf Lecture 2011

Tarski Lectures, Berkeley,  2013  Ritt Lectures, Columbia, Spring 2013, ASL Karp Prize 2013

Plenary Speaker, ICM 2014. Elected FRS 2015

Member of Academia Europaea 2016

Weyl Lectures, IAS, 2018, Hahn Lectures, Yale, 2018

Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics  2022

Further details

Editor, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 2011-2016

Editor, Algebra and Number Theory

Editor, International Journal of Number Theory

Editor, Forum of Mathematics

Editor, IMRN

Editor, Essential Number Theory

Major / recent publications

(with E. Bombieri) The number of integral points on arcs and ovals, Duke Math. J. 59 (1989) 337–357. Copyright 1989, Duke University Press. Preprint version reprinted here by permission of the publisher.

(with A. J. Wilkie) The rational points of a definable set, Duke Math. J. 133 (2006) 591-616, published by Duke University Press. Preprint version reprinted here by permission of the publisher.

(with U. Zannier) Rational points in periodic analytic sets and the Manin-Mumford conjecture, Rend. Mat. Acc. Lincei 19 (2008) 149–162. Preprint version reprinted here by permission of the publisher.

O-minimality and the Andre-Oort conjecture for C^n, Annals Math. 173 (2011), 1779-1840. Preprint version here.

(with P. Habegger) Some unlikely intersections beyond Andre-Oort, Compositio 148 (2012), 1-27. Preprint version here.

(with J. Tsimerman) Ax-Lindemann for A_g, Annals Math. 179 (2014), 659-681, and arXiv preprint here.

(with P. Habegger) O-minimality and certain atypical intersections, preprint here, Ann. Sci. Ecole Norm. Sup. 49 (2016), 813-858.

(with J. Tsimerman) Ax-Schanuel for the j-function, arXiv preprint here, Duke Math. J. 165 (2016), 2587-2605.

(with R. Cluckers and A. J. Wilkie) Uniform parameterization of subanalytic sets and diophantine applications, arXiv preprint here, Ann. Sci. Ecole Norm. Sup. 53 (2020), 1-42.

(with N. Mok and J. Tsimerman) Ax-Schanuel for Shimura varieties, arXiv preprint here, Annals Math 189 (2019), 945-978.

(with J. Tsimerman) Independence of CM points in elliptic curves, JEMS (2021).

(with T. Scanlon) Effective transcendental Zilber-Pink, arXiv preprint, May 2021.

(with A. N. Shankar and J. Tsimerman, and with an appendix by H. Esnault and N. Groechenig) Canonical heights on Shimura varieties and the Andre-Oort conjecture, arXiv preprint, September 2021.

(with J. Tsimerman) Ax-Schanuel and exceptional integrability, arXiv preprint, February 2022.

Point-Counting and the Zilber-Pink Conjecture, CUP, 2022, see here.

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