Richard Arnold Shore (born August 18, 1946) is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University who works in recursion theory.

He was, in 1983, an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw and gave a talk The Degrees of Unsolvability: the Ordering of Functions by Relative Computability.

In 2009, he was the Gödel Lecturer (Reverse mathematics: the playground of logic).

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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