Greg Hjorth
Greg Hjorth | |
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| Born | 14 June 1963 Melbourne, Australia |
| Died | 13 January 2011 (aged 47) Melbourne, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Hjorth's theory of turbulence |
| Awards | First Sacks Prize from the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) (1993); Sloan Foundation Fellowship 1998; An invitation to the International Congress of Mathematicians (1998); The Karp Prize of the ASL (2003); Invited key speaker to the Alfred Tarski Lectures at UC Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, set theory, logic |
| Institutions | University of Melbourne University of California |
| Doctoral advisor | William Hugh Woodin |
Greg Hjorth (14 June 1963 – 13 January 2011) was an Australian Professor of Mathematics, chess International Master (1984) and joint (with Ian Rogers) Commonwealth Champion in 1983. He worked in the field of mathematical logic.