Akihiro Kanamori

Akihiro Kanamori ( born October 23, 1948 in the prefecture of Tokyo) is a Japanese- American mathematician, dealing with set theory.

Kanamori studied from 1966 at the California Institute of Technology (Bachelor 1970) and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (King 's College ) in ARDMathias ( ultrafilter over uncountable cardinals ). At Cambridge, he was from 1970 to 1975 (with a one-year break from the University of Wisconsin 1972/73 with K. Kunen ). In 1975 he was lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1977 Benjamin Pierce assistant professor at Harvard University. After a year at Baruch College of the City University of New York In 1982 he became associate professor (first as a visiting professor, 1983 ). At Boston University, where he is a professor since 1992 1988/89 and 1995 he was a visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 2002/ 03 he was a Senior Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and in 2009 he was at the Lichtenberg -Kolleg in Göttingen.

He is a citizen of the United States. 1981 to 1990 he was a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Symbolic Logic.

He is the author of a famous textbook on higher cardinal numbers in set theory, among others, The Higher Infinite, and Matthew Foreman editor of the multivolume Handbook of Set Theory. He is also known for contributions to the history of set theory, for example, he is co-editor of the Collected Works of Ernst Zermelo.

Kanamori is also a tournament chess player. His first publication in 1968 affected Indian History ( about the siege of Chitral ).

Writings

  • The Higher Infinite. Large Cardinals in Set Theory from the Beginnings. Springer Verlag 1994, 2nd edition 2003, ISBN 3540003843
  • Juliet Floyd: How Gödel Transformed set theory, Notices AMS 2006, S.417, online, pdf file
  • The mathematical development of Set Theory from Cantor to Cohen, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, vol 2, 1996, p.1 -71
  • With Burton Dreben: Hilbert and Set Theory, synthesis Bd.110, 1997, p.77
  • Zermelo and Set Theory, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Bd.10, 2004, p.287
  • Gödel and set theory, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Bd.13, 2007, p.153
  • Cohen and Set Theory, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Bd.14, 2008, S.351
  • Set Theory from Cantor to Cohen, in Andrew Irvine, J. Woods (Eds. ), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 4, 2008, Cambridge University Press
  • Menachem Magidor: The evolution of large cardinals in set theory, in GH Müller, Dana Scott (Editor): Higher Set Theory ( Oberwolfach 1977), Lecture Notes in Mathematics Bd.669, Springer Verlag, p.99 -275, online, pdf file, 7 MB
  • Editor Matthew Foreman: Handbook of Set Theory, Vol.1, Springer, 2010 Some chapters online
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