Akihiro Kanamori

Akihiro Kanamori (金森 晶洋) (October 23, 1948, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese-born American mathematician. He specializes in set theory and is the author of the successful monograph on large cardinals, The Higher Infinite. He wrote several essays on the history of mathematics, especially set theory.

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• Akihiro Kanamori Gdel vis vis Russell Logic and Set Theory
• Akihiro Kanamori
• Selected publications
• References

Kanamori graduated from California Institute of Technology and earned a Ph.D. from University of Cambridge (King’s College). He is a professor of mathematics at Boston University.

With Matthew Foreman he is the editor of the monumental Handbook of Set Theory (2010).