Hugh Woodin
Professor of Mathematics and of Philosophy at Harvard University
Hugh Woodin, Professor of Mathematics and of Philosophy at Harvard University, is a logician and set theorist whose work on large cardinals (infinities so vast that the standard axioms of mathematics cannot prove they exist) has reshaped the foundations of mathematics. One class of them, the Woodin cardinals, now bears his name. His search for new axioms that could settle Cantor’s Continuum Hypothesis, the question of whether any infinity lies between the size of the whole numbers and that of the real numbers, asks whether the universe of sets has one true structure.
