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Gerald Sacks, 1933-2019
It is with sadness that we have to announce that Gerald Sacks passed away on October 4th, 2019. Gerald Sacks was a logician who served as a professor at the Harvard Mathematics Department for 40 years, from 1972 to 2012.
He is best known for Sacks forcing and the Sacks Density Theorem.
![Sacks](/media/sacks1.jpg)
Gerald Sacks, 1933-2019, Image Source: personal website of Gerald.
Links:
- Gerald Sacks Wikipedia entry
- Gerald Sacks Genalogy entry
- MIT page of Gerald Sacks
- Gerald personal Harvard website
- A talk of Gerald from 2012 (youtube)