Akihiro Kanamori

Akihiro Kanamori
金森 晶洋
Kanamori playing chess in 1975
Born (1948-10-23) October 23, 1948 (age 76)
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge
Known forThe Higher Infinite
SpouseTamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (until divorce)
Children2 sons
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsBoston University
ThesisUltrafilters over uncountable cardinals (1975)

Akihiro Kanamori (金森 晶洋, Kanamori Akihiro, born October 23, 1948 in Tokyo) is a Japanese-born American mathematician. He specializes in set theory and is the author of the monograph on large cardinals, The Higher Infinite.[1] He has written several essays on the history of mathematics, especially set theory.

Kanamori graduated from California Institute of Technology and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (King's College), and is a professor of mathematics at Boston University.

With Matthew Foreman, Kanamori is the editor of the Handbook of Set Theory (2010).[2]

  1. ^ Reviews of The Higher Infinite:
    • F. R. Drake, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, doi:10.1112/S0024609396221678
    • Joel David Hamkins, Studia Logica, JSTOR 20016207
    • Azriel Lévy, Journal of Symbolic Logic, doi:10.2307/2275615, JSTOR 2275615
    • Pierre Matet, MR1321144
    • M. Weese, Zbl 0813.03034
    • P. D. Welch, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, doi:10.1017/s0013091500019532
  2. ^ Unofficial collection of some chapters of the Handbook of Set Theory