Saharon Shelah is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey.
10 Facts About Saharon Shelah
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Saharon Shelah is the son of the Israeli poet and political activist Yonatan Ratosh.
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Saharon Shelah received his PhD for his work on stable theories in 1969 from the Hebrew University.
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Saharon Shelah then worked as a teaching assistant at the Institute of Mathematics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem while completing a Ph.
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Saharon Shelah became a professor at Hebrew University in 1974, a position he continues to hold.
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Saharon Shelah has been a visiting professor at the following universities: the University of Wisconsin, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, and Rutgers University, New Jersey.
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Saharon Shelah has been a distinguished visiting professor at Rutgers University since 1986.
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Saharon Shelah constructed a Jonsson group, an uncountable group for which every proper subgroup is countable.
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Saharon Shelah showed that Whitehead's problem is independent of ZFC.
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Saharon Shelah's work has had a deep impact on model theory and set theory.