Nationality American/Austrian Name Sy Friedman Siblings Harvey Friedman Alma mater MIT Doctoral advisor Gerald Sacks | Residence Vienna, Austria Role Mathematician | |
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Books Fine Structure and Class Forcing, Generalized Descriptive Set Theory and Classification Theory Known for Mathematical logic, Set theory, Large cardinal | ||
Sy-David Friedman (born May 23, 1953 in Chicago) is an American and Austrian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna and the director of the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic. His main research interest lies in mathematical logic, in particular in set theory and recursion theory.
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Friedman is the brother of Ilene Friedman and the brother of mathematician Harvey Friedman.
Biography
He studied at Northwestern University and, from 1970, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from MIT (his thesis Recursion on Inadmissible Ordinals was written under the supervision of Gerald E. Sacks).
In 1979 Sy Friedman accepted a position at MIT, and in 1990 he became a full professor there. Since 1999 he has been a professor of mathematical logic at the University of Vienna. He is a Fellow of Collegium Invisibile.
Selected publications and results
He has authored about 70 research articles, including:
He also published a research monograph