Robin Gandy Born Robin Oliver Gandy (1919-09-22)22 September 1919 Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire, England Died 20 November 1995(1995-11-20) (aged 76) Oxford, England Residence United Kingdom Nationality British Education Abbotsholme School Alma mater University of Cambridge (PhD) Known for Recursion theory Scientific career Fields Mathematical logic Institutions University of Manchester University of Leicester University of Leeds Stanford University University of California, Los Angeles University of Oxford Thesis On Axiomatic Systems in Mathematics and Theories in Physics (1953) Doctoral advisor Alan Turing[1][2] Doctoral students Martin Hyland[3] Jeff Paris[2]