Gerald Sacks
Logician
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... Wikipedia
Born: 1933, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Died: October 4, 2019 (age 86 years)
Academic advisor: J. Barkley Rosser
Graduation date: 1961