Robert M. Solovay

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Robert M. Solovay
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Robert Solovay in 1993 (photo by George Bergman)
Born (1938-12-15) December 15, 1938 (age 86)
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Chicago
Known for Solovay model
Solovay–Strassen primality test
Zero sharp
Martin's axiom
Solovay–Kitaev theorem
Awards Paris Kanellakis Award (2003)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor Saunders Mac Lane
Doctoral students Ken McAloon
Matthew Foreman
Judith Roitman
Betül Tanbay
W. Hugh Woodin

Robert Martin Solovay (born December 15, 1938) is an American mathematician working in set theory.

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Biography

Solovay earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964 under the direction of Saunders Mac Lane, with a dissertation on A Functorial Form of the Differentiable Riemann–Roch theorem . [1] Solovay has spent his career at the University of California at Berkeley, where his Ph.D. students include W. Hugh Woodin and Matthew Foreman. [2]

Work

Solovay's theorems include:

Selected publications

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