Michael Makkai (Makkai Mihály, 24 June, 1939, Budapest) is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in mathematical logic. He works in model theory, category theory, algebraic logic, and in the theory of topoi. He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, then worked at the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He learned logic from Rózsa Péter and Andrzej Mostowski. Since 1974, he is a professor of mathematics at the McGill University.

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  • Michael Makkai (Makkai Mihály, 24 June, 1939, Budapest) is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in mathematical logic. He works in model theory, category theory, algebraic logic, and in the theory of topoi. He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, then worked at the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He learned logic from Rózsa Péter and Andrzej Mostowski. Since 1974, he is a professor of mathematics at the McGill University. He is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1995). With Leo Harrington and Saharon Shelah he proved the Vaught conjecture for ω-stable theories.
  • Makkai Mihály magyar származású kanadai matematikus, Makkai László történész fia.
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  • Michael Makkai (Makkai Mihály, 24 June, 1939, Budapest) is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in mathematical logic. He works in model theory, category theory, algebraic logic, and in the theory of topoi. He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, then worked at the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He learned logic from Rózsa Péter and Andrzej Mostowski. Since 1974, he is a professor of mathematics at the McGill University.
  • Makkai Mihály magyar származású kanadai matematikus, Makkai László történész fia.
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  • Michael Makkai
  • Makkai Mihály
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