is a Japan

Japan

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-born American

United States

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 mathematician. He specializes in set theory

Set theory

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 and is the author of the successful monograph on large cardinals

Large cardinal property

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, The Higher Infinite. He wrote several essays on the history of mathematics, especially set theory.

Kanamori graduated from California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

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 and earned a Ph.D. from University of Cambridge (King’s College). He is a professor of mathematics at the Boston University

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With Matthew Foreman

Matthew Foreman

Matthew Dean Foreman is a set theorist at University of California, Irvine. He has made contributions in widely varying areas of set theory, including descriptive set theory, forcing, and infinitary combinatorics....

 he is the editor of the monumental Handbook of Set Theory (2010).

Selected publications

1. A. Kanamori, M. Magidor
   Menachem Magidor
   Menachem Magidor is an Israeli mathematician who specializes in mathematical logic, in particular set theory. He served as President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.- Biography :Menachem Magidor was born in Petah Tikva on January 24, 1946....
   
   : 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.
2. R. M. Solovay, W. N. Reinhardt, A. Kanamori: Strong axioms of infinity and elementary embeddings, Annals of Mathematical Logic, 13(1978), 73–116.
3. A. Kanamori: The Higher Infinite. Large Cardinals in Set Theory from their Beginnings., Perspectives in Mathematical Logic. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994. xxiv+536 pp.