Gerald Sacks
Mathematician, Award Winner
2033 –
Who is Gerald Sacks?
Gerald Enoch 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 and the Sacks Density Theorem, which asserts that the partial order of the recursively enumerable Turing degrees is dense.
Sacks earned his Ph.D. in 1961 from Cornell University under the direction of J. Barkley Rosser, with a dissertation entitled On Suborderings of Degrees of Recursive Insolvability. Among his notable students are Lenore Blum, Harvey Friedman, Sy Friedman, Leo Harrington, Richard Shore, and Theodore Slaman.
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- Born
- Mar 22, 2033
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Gerald E Sacks
- Gerald Enoch Sacks
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Cornell University
Mathematics
( - 1961) - Harvard University
- PhD, Cornell University
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Cambridge
(1972 - )
- Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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