Alexander S. Kechris
Mathematician, Award Winner
1946 –
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Who is Alexander S. Kechris?
Alexander Sotirios Kechris is a descriptive set theorist and ergodic theorist at Caltech. He has made major contributions to the theory of Borel equivalence relations and the theory of automorphism groups of uncountable structures.
Kechris earned his Ph.D. in 1972 under the direction of Yiannis N. Moschovakis, with a dissertation entitled Projective Ordinals and Countable Analytic Sets.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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- Born
- Mar 23, 1946
Greece - Also known as
- Alexander Kechris
- Alexander Sotirios Kechris
- Alekos Kechris
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Greece
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Mathematics
( - 1972)
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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