Gerald Sacks is a logician who holds a joint appointment at Harvard University as a Professor of Mathematical Logic and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Professor Emeritus. His most important contributions have been in recursion theory. Named after him is Sacks forcing, a forcing notion based on perfect sets. Sacks earned his Ph.D. in 1961 from Cornell University under the direction of J. Barkley Rosser, … Wikipedia
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