About Joan Moschovakis
Born 1937. Joan Moschovakis is an American mathematician and logician, known for Intuitionistic logic and Intuitionistic mathematics.
Joan Rand Moschovakis is a logician and mathematician focusing on intuitionistic logic and mathematics. She is professor emerita at Occidental College and a guest at UCLA.
Moschovakis earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965 under the direction of Stephen Kleene, with a dissertation titled Disjunction, Existence and *-Eliminability in Formalized Intuitionistic Analysis.
Moschovakis is married to Yiannis Moschovakis, with whom she gave the 2014 Lindström Lectures at the University of Gothenburg.
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Who is Joan Moschovakis?
American logician and mathematician
When was Joan Moschovakis born?
Joan Moschovakis was born on 24 December 1937.
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Joan Moschovakis is a mathematician and logician.
What is Joan Moschovakis known for?
Joan Moschovakis is known for Intuitionistic logic and Intuitionistic mathematics.
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Joan Moschovakis is American.
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