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Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis (Greek: Γιάννης Μοσχοβάκης; born January 18, 1938 in Athens, Greece) is a set theorist, descriptive set theorist, and recursion (computability) theorist, at UCLA.
His book Descriptive Set Theory (North-Holland) is the primary reference for the subject. He is especially associated with the development of the effective, or lightface, version of descriptive set theory, and he is known for the Moschovakis coding lemma that is named after him.
Biography
Moschovakis earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1963 under the direction of Stephen Kleene, with a dissertation entitled Recursive Analysis. In 2015 he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to mathematical logic, especially set theory and computability theory, and for exposition".[1]
For many years he has split his time between UCLA and the University of Athens (he retired from the latter in July 2005).
Moschovakis is married to Joan Moschovakis, with whom he gave the 2014 Lindström Lectures at the University of Gothenburg.[2]
Publications
Elementary induction on abstract structures. North-Holland. 1974.[3] 2nd edn. Dover. 2008.
Descriptive set theory. North-Holland. 1980.[4] 2nd edn. 2005. Second edition available online
Notes on set theory. North-Holland. 1994. 2nd edn. 2005.
References
2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-11-16.
http://flov.gu.se/english/research/logic/lindstrom-lectures
Barwise, K. Jon (1975). "Review: Elementary induction on abstract structures, by Y. Moschovakis". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 81 (6): 1031–1035. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1975-13893-6.
Jech, Thomas (1981). "Review: Descriptive set theory, by Y. Moschovakis". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 5 (3): 339–349. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1981-14952-1.
External links
Home page
Yiannis N. Moschovakis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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