Akihiro Kanamori

Akihiro Kanamori (金森 晶洋, Kanamori Akihiro; born October 23, 1948 in Tokyo) is a Japanese-born American mathematician. He specializes in set theory and is the author of the monograph on large cardinals, The Higher Infinite.^[1] He has written several essays on the history of mathematics, especially set theory.

Akihiro Kanamori
金森 晶洋
Kanamori playing chess in 1975
Born	(1948-10-23) October 23, 1948 (age 76) Tokyo, Japan
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge
Known for	The Higher Infinite
Spouse	Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (until divorce)
Children	2 sons
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Boston University
Thesis	Ultrafilters over uncountable cardinals (1975)

Kanamori graduated from California Institute of Technology and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (King's College), and is a professor of mathematics at Boston University.

With Matthew Foreman, Kanamori is the editor of the Handbook of Set Theory (2010).^[2]

Selected publications

• A. Kanamori, M. Magidor: 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.
• R. M. Solovay, W. N. Reinhardt, A. Kanamori: Strong axioms of infinity and elementary embeddings, Annals of Mathematical Logic, 13(1978), 73–116.
• A. Kanamori: The Higher Infinite. Large Cardinals in Set Theory from their Beginnings., Perspectives in Mathematical Logic. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994. xxiv+536 pp.

Honors

• Marshall Scholarship