Fred Galvin

Frederick William Galvin is a mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Kansas. His research interests include set theory and combinatorics.

His notable combinatorial work includes the proof of the Dinitz conjecture. In set theory, he proved with Andras Hajnal that if $aleph\_\{omega\_1\}$ is a strong limit cardinal, then

holds. The research on extending this result led Saharon Shelah to the invention of PCF theory. Galvin and Shelah also proved the square bracket partition relations $aleph\_1\; ot\; o\; [aleph\_1]\; ^2\_4$ and $2^\{aleph\_0\}\; ot\; o\; [2^\{aleph\_0\}]\; ^2\_\{aleph\_0\}$. Galvin and Prikry proved that every Borel set is Ramsey.

Galvin received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Minnesota.MathGenealogy|id=61007]

He invented doublemove chess.

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