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professor first european set theory meeting '' , będlewo -lrb- poland sy -rrb- , july 2007 friedman before a lecture during '' the gerald e. sacks university of vienna chicago 300px american/austrian mathematician 6 may 1953 mathematical logic , set theory , large cardinal property vienna , austria sfriedman.jpg sy friedman
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sy friedman

sy-david friedman -lrb- born on may 23 , 1953 in chicago -rrb- is an american and austrian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the university of vienna and the director of the kurt gödel research center for mathematical logic .
his main research interest lies in mathematical logic , in particular in set theory and recursion theory .
friedman is the brother of mathematician harvey friedman .
