Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel

male, deceased (1978)
Logician, incompleteness theorems, mathematician, mathematics, philosopher, Gödel numbering…Recursive set, axioms of set theory, axiomatic set theory, set theory, Settheorist
Kurt Gödel (April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American ma...
Paul Cohen

Paul Cohen

male, deceased (2007)
Littlewood's conjecture, conjecture of Littlewood, National Medal of Science, University of London, Settheorist, Jewish person…set theory
Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 - March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey into a Jewish family and...
Donald A. Martin

Donald A. Martin

male, 68 years old
Logician, Borel set, determinacy, large cardinal, Martin's axiom, UCLA Logic Center…Settheorist
Donald A. (Tony) Martin (born 24 December 1940) is a set theorist and philosopher of mathematics at UCLA. Among Martin's most notable work are the...
Thomas Jech

Thomas Jech

male
Erdős number 2, Thomas J. Jech, set theory, mathematician, Settheorist, czech
Thomas J. Jech is a is a set theorist who was at Penn State, but is now at the Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech...
W. Hugh Woodin

W. Hugh Woodin

male, 54 years old
Logician, inner model, Omega-logic, William Hugh Woodin, continuum hypothesis, determinacy…Settheorist
William Hugh Woodin is a set theorist at University of California, Berkeley. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models...
Saharon Shelah

Saharon Shelah

male, 64 years old
Jewish person, set theory, Israeli, mathematician, cardinal, mathematics…Settheorist, axiomatic set theory, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
Saharon Shelah (born July 3, 1945 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
Robert M. Solovay

Robert M. Solovay

male
University of Chicago, Logician, mathematician, cryptography, prime number, probability…Settheorist, set, set theory, Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory
Robert M. Solovay is a set theorist who spent many years as a professor at UC Berkeley. Among his most noted accomplishments are showing (relative...
Alexander S. Kechris

Alexander S. Kechris

male (Pasadena, California, United States)
Logician, mathematician, Ordinal, Countable, greek, American…Settheorist, Analytic set, Projective set
Alexander S. (Alekos) Kechris is a descriptive set theorist at Caltech. He has made major contributions to the theory of Borel equivalence...

Keith Devlin

male
Keith J. Devlin, Erdős number 2, Settheorist, Weekend Edition, Center for the Study of Language and Information, English
Keith J. Devlin is an English mathematician and writer. He currently is Executive Director of Stanford University's Center for the Study of...

Matthew Foreman

male, 52 years old
University of California, Irvine faculty, Logician, Banach–Tarski paradox, Banach-Tarski decomposition, Descriptive Set Theory, set theory…Settheorist
Matthew Foreman (born March 21, 1957) is a set theorist at University of California, Irvine. He has made contributions in widely varying areas of...