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Benjamin Tod Castle

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Contact Information

371 Altgeld Hall

1409 W. Green St.

Urbana, IL 61801

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

I study model theory, a branch of mathematical logic. I am most interested in interactions between model theory, geometry, and combinatorics -- particularly those involving the so-called "Zilber trichotomy."

Education

Mathematics, PhD, U.C. Berkeley

PhD in Mathematics, UC Berkeley, May 2021

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Recent Publications

Castle, B., & Hasson, A. (2024). Very ampleness in strongly minimal sets. Model Theory, 3(2), 213-258. https://doi.org/10.2140/mt.2024.3.213

Castle, B. (2024). Zilber’s restricted trichotomy in characteristic zero. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 37, 1041-1120. https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/1037

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