Yiannis N. Moschovakis

Yiannis N. Moschovakis (2005)

Yiannis (John) Nicholas Moschovakis (born January 18, 1938 in Athens ) is a Greek -born American logician who deals with descriptive set theory, the theory of algorithms and recursion theory.

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Moschovakis went to school in Athens and came to the USA in 1956, where he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1960 and then at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he received his doctorate in 1963 under Stephen Kleene (Recursive Analysis). After a year as a post-doc at Harvard University , he joined the University of California, Los Angeles in 1964 , where he is a professor. From 1997 to 2005 he was also at the University of Athens , but had already been there regularly. Alexander S. Kechris is one of his doctoral students . He is married to the logician Joan Rand Moschovakis, who also studied with Kleene and taught at Occidental College . With her he has a son and a daughter.

In 2008 he held the Tarski Lectures (Algorithms and implementations / English as an programming language / The axiomatic derivation of absolute lower bounds). In 1974 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver ( New Methods and Results in Descriptive Set Theory ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 1970 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ).

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SURNAME	Moschovakis, Yiannis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Moschovakis, Yiannis Nicholas (full name); Moschovakis, John Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek-American logician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Athens