Education
Hjorth earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1993, under the direction of West. Hugh Woodin, with a dissertation entitled On the influence of second uniform indiscernible.
player mathematician university professor
Hjorth earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1993, under the direction of West. Hugh Woodin, with a dissertation entitled On the influence of second uniform indiscernible.
He worked in the field of mathematical logic. He held faculty positions at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Melbourne. Among his most important contributions to set theory was the so-called theory of turbulence, used in the theory of Borel equivalence relations.
His best single performance was at Brighton (BCF Championship) 1984, where he scored four of seven possible points (57%) against 2551-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2570.
Hjorth died of a heart attack in Melbourne, on 13 January 2011.