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Saharon Shelah
Shelah in 2005
Born (1945-07-03) July 3, 1945 (age 78)
Jerusalem, British Mandate for Palestine (now Israel)
Alma mater
  • Tel Aviv University (B.Sc)
  • Hebrew University (M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Known forProper Forcing, PCF theory, Sauer–Shelah lemma, Shelah cardinal
Awards
  • Erdős Prize (1977)
  • Rothschild Prize (1982)
  • Karp Prize (1983)
  • George Pólya Prize (1992)
  • Gödel Lecture (1996)
  • Bolyai Prize (2000)
  • Wolf Prize (2001)
  • Israel Prize (1998)
  • EMET Prize (2011)
  • Leroy P. Steele Prize (2013)
  • Rolf Schock Prize (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical logic, model theory, set theory
InstitutionsHebrew University, Rutgers University
Doctoral advisorMichael O. Rabin
Doctoral studentsRami Grossberg[1]

Saharon Shelah (שַׂהֲרֹן שֶׁלַחŚahăron Šelaḥ, Hebrew pronunciation: [sähäʁo̞n ʃe̞läχ]; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey.

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Saharon Shelah (שַׂהֲרֹן שֶׁלַח‎ Śahăron Šelaḥ, Hebrew pronunciation: [sähäʁo̞n ʃe̞läχ]; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor...

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Is every abelian group A with Ext1(A, Z) = 0 a free abelian group? Saharon Shelah proved that Whitehead's problem is independent of ZFC, the standard...

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PCF theory

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PCF theory is the name of a mathematical theory, introduced by Saharon Shelah (1978), that deals with the cofinality of the ultraproducts of ordered sets...

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Abstract elementary class

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elementary class in first-order model theory. They were introduced by Saharon Shelah. ⟨ K , ≺ K ⟩ {\displaystyle \langle K,\prec _{K}\rangle } , for K {\displaystyle...

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Categorical theory

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cardinality, then it is categorical in all uncountable cardinalities. Saharon Shelah (1974) extended Morley's theorem to uncountable languages: if the language...

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List of statements independent of ZFC

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consistency of a Mahlo cardinal. This theorem of Shelah answers a question of H. Friedman. In 1973, Saharon Shelah showed that the Whitehead problem ("is every...

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Model theory

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in 1954. Since the 1970s, the subject has been shaped decisively by Saharon Shelah's stability theory. Compared to other areas of mathematical logic such...

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Micha Perles

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dimensions. The Perles–Sauer–Shelah lemma, a result in extremal set theory whose proof was credited to Perles by Saharon Shelah. The pumping lemma for context-free...

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Undecidable problem

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term. This result was later generalized by Rice's theorem. In 1973, Saharon Shelah showed the Whitehead problem in group theory is undecidable, in the...

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Continuum hypothesis

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longer be settled in the manner formerly hoped for". In a related vein, Saharon Shelah wrote that he does "not agree with the pure Platonic view that the interesting...

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Spectrum of a theory

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uncountable κ. This was proved by Saharon Shelah. For this, he proved a very deep dichotomy theorem. Saharon Shelah gave an almost complete solution to...

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Stability spectrum

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transcendentality, superstability and stability. This result is due to Saharon Shelah, who also defined stability and superstability. Theorem. Every countable...

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List of set theory topics

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von Neumann Giuseppe Peano Willard Quine Bertrand Russell Dana Scott Saharon Shelah Wacław Sierpiński Jack Silver Thoralf Skolem Robert M. Solovay Mikhail...

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Clubsuit

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clear that ◊ ⇒ ♣, and it was shown in 1975 that ♣ + CH ⇒ ◊; however, Saharon Shelah gave a proof in 1980 that there exists a model of ♣ in which CH does...

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Maryanthe Malliaris

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joint papers with Saharon Shelah connecting topology, set theory, and model theory.[MS13][MS16] In this work, Malliaris and Shelah used Keisler's order...

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Leo Harrington

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all analytic sets then x# exists for all reals x, and proving with Saharon Shelah that the first-order theory of the partially ordered set of recursively...

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Unfriendly partition

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infinite graph has an unfriendly partition into two subsets. However, Saharon Shelah and Eric Charles Milner disproved the conjecture, showing that uncountable...

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Rolf Schock Prizes

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Derek Parfit  United Kingdom 2017 Ruth Millikan  United States 2018 Saharon Shelah  Israel 2020 Dag Prawitz and Per Martin-Löf  Sweden  Sweden 2022 David...

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Glossary of set theory

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Strong finite intersection property SH Suslin's hypothesis Shelah 1.  Saharon Shelah 2.  A Shelah cardinal is a large cardinal that is the critical point...

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Abelian group

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Whitehead groups of infinite order also free abelian groups? In the 1970s, Saharon Shelah proved that the Whitehead problem is: Undecidable in ZFC (Zermelo–Fraenkel...

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Vitali set

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true by set theorists, but it cannot be proven in ZFC alone. In 1980, Saharon Shelah proved that it is not possible to establish Solovay's result without...

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Martin Goldstern

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simplified, and made widely accessible, a general preservation theorem of Saharon Shelah for countable support proper forcing iterations. In 1993 he started...

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