About Lou van den Dries
Laurentius Petrus Dignus "Lou" van den Dries is a Dutch mathematician working in model theory. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 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. In 2021, van den Dries retired and became a professor emeritus. 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".
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