Akihiro Kanamori

is a Japanese-born American mathematician. He specializes in set theory and is the author of the monograph on large cardinals, ''The Higher Infinite''. He has written several essays on the history of mathematics, especially set theory.

Kanamori graduated from California Institute of Technology and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (King's College), and is a professor of mathematics at Boston University.

With Matthew Foreman, Kanamori is the editor of the ''Handbook of Set Theory'' (2010). Provided by Wikipedia