Joel David Hamkins
| Joel David Hamkins | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics, Philosophy |
| Institutions | City University of New York |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | W. Hugh Woodin |
| Doctoral students |
George Leibman |
George Leibman
Jonas Reitz
Victoria Gitman
Thomas Johnstone
Jason Schanker
Brent Cody
Norman Perlmutter
Joel David Hamkins is an American mathematician and philosopher based at the City University of New York. He has made contributions in mathematical and philosophical logic, particularly set theory and the philosophy of set theory, in computability theory, and in group theory.
After earning a B.S. in mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, Hamkins earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1994 at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of W. Hugh Woodin, with a dissertation entitled Lifting and Extending Measures by Forcing; Fragile Measurability. He joined the faculty of the City University of New York in 1995, where he is a member of the doctoral faculties in Mathematics, in Philosophy and in Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate Center and professor of mathematics at the College of Staten Island. He has also held various faculty or visiting fellow positions at University of California at Berkeley, Kobe University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Muenster, Georgia State University, University of Amsterdam, the Fields Institute, New York University and the Isaac Newton Institute.
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