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Email (best method): mlieb(at)math{dot}upenn[dot]edu

Office: DRL 4N61

Phone: 215-573-1029

"But yet mathematical certainty is, after all, something insufferable. Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too."

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from the Underground"

My name is Michael Lieberman, and I am a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the area of mathematical logic and foundations. Specifically, I'm interested in abstract model theory and in category-theoretic approaches to the subject. I was born and mostly raised in Minnesota (save for a nearly yearlong sojourn in Northeastern China), received my BA in math from Reed College, that most liberal arts of all liberal arts schools, and received my PhD from the University of Michigan in 2009. Follow the links on the left for more.