Alexandre Borovik is Professor of Pure Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

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, United Kingdom, where he has been working for the past 20 years. His principal research lies in algebra

Algebra

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, model theory

Model theory

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, and combinatorics

Combinatorics

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---topics on which he published several monographs and a number of papers. He also has an interest in cognitive aspects of mathematical practice and recently published a book Mathematics under the Microscope: Notes on Cognitive Aspects of Mathematical Practice (published by AMS

American Mathematical Society

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) which explains a mathematician's outlook on psychophysiological and cognitive issues in mathematics.

Selected books

• Borovik, Alexandre; Nesin, Ali: Groups of finite Morley rank. Oxford Logic Guides, 26. Oxford Science Publications. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994