William Craig (logician)

William Craig (logician)

William Craig (born 1918) is Emeritus professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. His interests include mathematical logic, and philosophy of science. He is mostly known for the Craig interpolation theorem.

External links

* [http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/people/detail/26 Official Berkeley page]
* [http://sophos.berkeley.edu/interpolations/ A conference in honor of William Craig]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Craig:William.html Some Publications DBLP]

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