Institutions UCLA Name Yiannis Moschovakis | ||
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Doctoral students Howard BeckerDiana DubrovskyBenedict FreedmanCarl GordonGregory JonesAlexander S. KechrisLefteris KirousisPhokion KolaitisThomas Mc CutcheonMonica McArthurGregory McColmLawrence MossDavid ShochatPerry SmithKatherine St. JohnPeter TripodesGlen Whitney Education University of Wisconsin-Madison (1963) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, Latin America & Caribbean Books Notes on set theory, Elementary Induction on Abstra, Descriptive Set Theory, Provability - Computability and Refle Similar People Alexander S Kechris, Stephen Cole Kleene, Saul Kripke, Alonzo Church, John Perry | ||
Doctoral advisor Stephen Cole Kleene | ||
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.