Akihiro Kanamori

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. He has written several essays on the history of mathematics, especially set theory.

Akihiro Kanamori
金森 晶洋
Kanamori playing chess in 1975
Born	(1948-10-23) October 23, 1948 Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge
Known for	The Higher Infinite
Spouse	Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (until divorce)
Children	2 sons
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Boston University
Thesis	Ultrafilters over uncountable cardinals (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Adrian Mathias
Doctoral students	Marcia Groszek

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).

Selected publications

• A. Kanamori, M. Magidor: The evolution of large cardinal axioms in set theory, in: Higher set theory (Proc. Conf., Math. Forschungsinst., Oberwolfach, 1977), Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 669, Springer, 99–275.
• R. M. Solovay, W. N. Reinhardt, A. Kanamori: Strong axioms of infinity and elementary embeddings, Annals of Mathematical Logic, 13(1978), 73–116.
• A. Kanamori: The Higher Infinite. Large Cardinals in Set Theory from their Beginnings., Perspectives in Mathematical Logic. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994. xxiv+536 pp.

Honors

• Marshall Scholarship

External links

• Kanamori's homepage with selected publications
• Short CV