Donald Anthony Martin

Donald A. (Tony) Martin is Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy at UCLA. He is a former Junior Fellow (1965-67) of Harvard University's Society of Fellows. Martin is one of the leading set theorists in the world. Most of his research has been concerned with infinite games, large cardinals, and their connections. He derived, with others, a definability theory for the continuum from game-theoretic determinacy hypotheses and Wrote proofs for standard set theory of Borel determinacy and projective determinacy from large cardinals. Martin has motivated and contributed to work on the associated philosophical problems. In 1988, he shared the Carol Karp Prize (with John Steel and W. Hugh Woodin), which is awarded every five years by the Association for Symbolic Logic, for his contribution to establishing from the existence of a supercompact cardinal that the Axiom of Determinacy holds in the smallest transitive model of ZF containing all reals and all ordinals. He is a past president (2000) of the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL). He has received Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Sloan Foundation fellowships.