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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-08-31 human Rebecca Rigby updated 2023-07-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005256b.htm person Hjorth Gregory John AACR2 14 June 1963 13 January 2011 Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Mathematician Educator Greg Hjorth was an internationally recognised mathematician, specialising in the field of set theory. Hjorth was 30 years old when his PhD thesis, completed in at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the Sacks Prize for the world's best mathematical logic thesis. One of the significant outcomes of his original work is what is now known as Hjorth's theory of turbulence. Hjorth held professorial positions at both Melbourne University and University of California Los Angeles. 1988 1988 Education - Honours in Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Melbourne 1993 1993 Award - Inaugural Sacks award for best mathematical logic thesis 1993 1993 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America 2003 2003 Award - Karp Prize of the Association of Symbolic Logic 2010 2010 Award - Invited to present at the Tarski Lectures, University of California, Berkeley

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 'Hjorth, Gregory John (Greg)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hjorth, Gregory John (Greg) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Newspaper Article: Australia loses a world-class maths wizard and chess champion Rundle, G. Australia loses a world-class maths wizard and chess champion 2011 The Age 10

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