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The past few years have seen some new connections developing between model theory (a branch of mathematical logic) and both algebra and number theory. Part of the novelty, for the model theorists, is that this work depends on the techniques, machinery, and point of view of stability theory, whose use, up to now, has been largely, but not exclusively, confined to problems of pure model theory (such as classifying first order theories and their models).
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Pillay, A. (1995). Model Theory, Differential Algebra, and Number Theory. In: Chatterji, S.D. (eds) Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_21
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