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 yiannis nicholas moschovakis university of wisconsin -- madison
yiannis n. moschovakis

yiannis nicholas moschovakis -lrb- ; born january 18 , 1938 -rrb- is a set theorist , descriptive set theorist , and recursion -lrb- computability -rrb- theorist , at ucla .
for many years he has split his time between ucla and university of athens .
his book `` descriptive set theory '' -lrb- north-holland -rrb- is the primary reference for the subject .
he is especially associated with the development of the effective , or lightface , version of descriptive set theory .
moschovakis earned his ph.d. from university of wisconsin -- madison in 1963 under the direction of stephen kleene , with a dissertation entitled `` recursive analysis '' .
moschovakis is married to joan moschovakis , with whom he gave the 2014 lindström lectures at the university of gothenburg .
