Akihiro Kanamori

Akihiro Kanamori ( Japanese 金森 晶 洋 ; born October 23, 1948 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese-American mathematician who deals with set theory.

Kanamori studied from 1966 at the California Institute of Technology (Bachelor 1970) and did his doctorate at the University of Cambridge (King's College) with ARDMathias ( Ultrafilters over uncountable cardinals ). He was in Cambridge from 1970 to 1975 (with a one-year break at the University of Wisconsin 1972/73 with K. Kunen). In 1975 he became a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1977 Benjamin Pierce Assistant Professor at Harvard University . After a year at Baruch College, City University of New York , he became an associate professor in 1982 (first as visiting professor, permanent in 1983) at Boston University , where he has been a professor since 1992. In 1988/89 and 1995 he was visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . In 2002/03 he was a Senior Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and in 2009 he was at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen .

He is a citizen of the USA . From 1981 to 1990 he was a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Symbolic Logic.

He is the author of a well-known textbook on higher cardinals in set theory, The Higher Infinite , and, with Matthew Foreman, editor of the multi-volume Handbook of Set Theory . He is also known for his contributions to the history of set theory, for example he is co-editor of Ernst Zermelo's collected works .

Kanamori is also a tournament chess player. Its first publication in 1968 was on Indian history (on the siege of Chitral ).

Fonts

• The Higher Infinite. Large Cardinals in Set Theory from the Beginnings . Springer Verlag 1994, 2nd edition 2003, ISBN 3540003843
• with Juliet Floyd: How Gödel transformed set theory , Notices AMS 2006, p. 417, online, PDF file
• The mathematical development of Set Theory from Cantor to Cohen , Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 2, 1996, pp. 1-71
• with Burton Dreben: Hilbert and Set Theory , Synthesis Vol. 110, 1997, p. 77
• Zermelo and Set Theory , Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 10, 2004, p. 287
• Gödel and Set Theory , Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 13, 2007, p. 153
• Cohen and Set Theory , Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 14, 2008, p. 351
• Set Theory from Cantor to Cohen , in Andrew Irvine, J. Woods (Ed.) Handbook of the Philosophy of Science , Vol. 4, 2008, Cambridge University Press
• with Menachem Magidor : The evolution of large cardinals in set theory , in GH Müller, Dana Scott (editor): Higher Set Theory (Oberwolfach 1977), Lecture Notes in Mathematics Vol. 669, Springer Verlag, pp. 99–275, online, PDF file, 7 MB
• Editor with Matthew Foreman : Handbook of Set Theory , Vol. 1, Springer 2010, Some Chapters Online

Web links

• Homepage
• Literature by and about Akihiro Kanamori in the catalog of the German National Library