Yiannis N. Moschovakis
Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis is a set theorist, descriptive set theorist, and recursion theorist, at UCLA.
His book Descriptive Set Theory is the primary reference for the subject. He is especially associated with the development of the effective, or lightface, version of descriptive set theory, and he is known for the Moschovakis coding lemma that is named after him.Biography
Moschovakis earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1963 under the direction of Stephen Kleene, with a dissertation entitled Recursive Analysis. In 2015 he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to mathematical logic, especially set theory and computability theory, and for exposition".
For many years he has split his time between UCLA and the University of Athens.
Moschovakis is married to Joan Moschovakis, with whom he gave the 2014 Lindström Lectures at the University of Gothenburg.Publications
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