Gerald Sacks
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 6 years ago |
| Born | Brooklyn |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Notable students | Theodore Slaman |
| Richard Shore | |
| Steve Simpson | |
| Leo Harrington | |
| Sy Friedman | |
| Lenore Blum | |
| Academic advisor | J. Barkley Rosser |
| Date of birth | January 1,1933 |
| Date of died | October 4,2019 |
| Notable student | Theodore Slaman |
| Richard Shore | |
| Lenore Blum | |
| Education | Cornell University |
| Harvard University | |
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| ID | 1569619 |
Gerald Sacks Life story
Gerald Enoch Sacks was a logician whose most important contributions were in recursion theory. Named after him is Sacks forcing, a forcing notion based on perfect sets and the Sacks Density Theorem, which asserts that the partial order of the recursively enumerable Turing degrees is dense.