Yiannis N. Moschovakis | |
|---|---|
 Moschovakis in 2005 | |
| Born | Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis January 18, 1938 |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Known for | Effective descriptive set theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | UCLA |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Kleene |
| Doctoral students | Alexander S. Kechris Phokion G. Kolaitis |
Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis (Greek: Γιάννης Μοσχοβάκης; born January 18, 1938) is a set theorist, descriptive set theorist, and recursion (computability) theorist, at UCLA.
His book Descriptive Set Theory (North-Holland) is the primary reference for the subject. He is especially associated with the development of the effective, or lightface, version of descriptive set theory, and he is known for the Moschovakis coding lemma that is named after him.