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Date of Birth
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23-March-1946
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Place of Birth
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Greece
(Europe, Eurasia, Southeast Europe)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Greece
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Also know as
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Alexander Kechris, Alexander Sotirios Kechris, Alekos Kechris
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Profession
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Mathematician
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Alexander Sotirios Kechris is a descriptive set theorist at Caltech. He has made major contributions to the theory of Borel equivalence relations.
Kechris earned his Ph.D. in 1972 under the direction of Yiannis N. Moschovakis, with a dissertation entitled Projective Ordinals and Countable Analytic Sets.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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