Yiannis N. Moschovakis
American logician
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| Intro | American logician | ||
| A.K.A. | Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis Yiannis Moschovakis | ||
| A.K.A. | Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis Yiannis Moschovakis | ||
| Places | United States of America | ||
| is | Mathematician Philosopher Computer scientist Educator | ||
| Work field | Academia Mathematics Technology Philosophy Science | ||
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| Birth | 18 January 1938, Athens, Athens Municipality, Central Athens Regional Unit, Attica Region | ||
| Age | 86 years | ||
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Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis (Greek: Γιάννης Μοσχοβάκης; born January 18, 1938) is a set theorist, descriptive set theorist, and recursion (computability) theorist, at UCLA. For many years he has split his time between UCLA and University of Athens . 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.
Moschovakis earned his Ph.D. from 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".
Moschovakis is married to Joan Moschovakis, with whom he gave the 2014 Lindström Lectures at the University of Gothenburg.