Yiannis N. Moschovakis

Yiannis N. Moschovakis
Born	January 18, 1938 (1938-01-18) (age 73) Athens, Greece
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	UCLA
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisor	Stephen Kleene
Doctoral students	Howard Becker Diana Dubrovsky Benedict Freedman Carl Gordon Gregory Jones Alexander S. Kechris Lefteris Kirousis Phokion Kolaitis Thomas Mc Cutcheon Monica McArthur Gregory McColm Lawrence Moss David Shochat Perry Smith Katherine St. John Peter Tripodes Glen Whitney
Known for	Effective descriptive set theory

Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis (Greek: Γιάννης Μοσχοβάκης; born January 18, 1938 in Athens, Greece) 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.

Moschovakis earned his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1963 under the direction of Stephen Kleene, with a dissertation entitled Recursive Analysis.

External links

• Home page
• Yiannis N. Moschovakis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Name	Moschovakis, Yiannis N.
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Date of birth	18 January 1938
Place of birth	Athens, Greece
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