Robert M. Solovay
| Robert M. Solovay | |
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Robert Solovay in 1972 (photo by George Bergman)
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| Born |
December 15, 1938 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Saunders Mac Lane |
| Doctoral students |
Matthew Foreman Kenneth McAloon Judith Roitman W. Hugh Woodin |
| Notable awards | Paris Kanellakis Award (2003) |
Robert Martin Solovay (born December 15, 1938) is an American mathematician specializing in set theory.
Solovay earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964 under the direction of Saunders Mac Lane, with a dissertation on A Functorial Form of the Differentiable Riemann–Roch theorem. Solovay has spent his career at the University of California at Berkeley, where his Ph.D. students include W. Hugh Woodin and Matthew Foreman.
Solovay's theorems include:
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