Yiannis N. Moschovakis
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| Born | 1938 Athens, Greece |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | UCLA |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Kleene |
| Doctoral students | Howard Becker Diana Dubrovsky Benedict Freedman Carl Gordon Gregory Jones Alexander S. Kechris Lefteris Kirousis Phokion Kolaitis Thomas Mc Cutcheon Monica McArthur Gregory McColm Lawrence Moss David Shochat Perry Smith Katherine St. John Peter Tripodes Glen Whitney |
| Known for | Effective descriptive set theory |
Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis (born 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 (he retired from the latter in July, 2005). His book Descriptive Set Theory (North-Holland) is the indispensable reference text for the subject. He is especially associated with the development of the effective, or lightface, version of descriptive set theory.
Moschovakis earned his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963 under the direction of Stephen Kleene, with a dissertation entitled Recursive Analysis.
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