Alfred W. Hales
Alfred W. Hales | |
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| Born | Alfred Washington Hales November 30, 1938 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Relatives | R. Stanton Hales (brother) |
| Awards | George Pólya Prize (1963) Fellow of the AAAS (2009) Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles Institute for Defense Analyses |
| Thesis | On the Nonexistence of Free Complete Boolean Algebras (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert P. Dilworth |
Alfred Washington Hales (born November 30, 1938) is an American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the namesakes of the Hales–Jewett theorem. He was born in Pasadena, California, and is the older brother of R. Stanton Hales.