Alfred W. Hales | |
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| Born | November 30, 1938 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Caltech |
| Awards | George Pólya Prize (1963), Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | UCLA, IDA Center for Communications Research-La Jolla |
| Thesis | On the Nonexistence of Free Complete Boolean Algebras (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert P. Dilworth |
Alfred Washington Hales (born November 30, 1938) is an American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the namesakes of the Hales–Jewett theorem. He was born in Pasadena, California, and is the older brother of R. Stanton Hales.[1]