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Name
  
Alexander Jr.


Role
  
Mathematician

Books
  
Lectures on Tensor Categories and Modular Functors, An Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras

Education
  
Yale University, Moscow State University

Alexander Alexandrovich Kirillov Jr. (Russian: Александр Александрович Кириллов) is a Russian-born American mathematician, working in the area of representation theory and Lie groups. He is a son of a Russian mathematician Alexandre Kirillov.

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Biography

Kirillov received his master's degree from the Moscow State University in 1989 and Ph.D from Yale University. He is currently an Associate Professor at State University of New York at Stony Brook. As his father, Kirillov also strongly involved in the advanced mathematical education of gifted schoolchildren, he is a teacher of the project School Nova, trying to establish traditions of the Russian Mathematical Schools on the American soil.

Publications

  • Bakalov, Bojko; Kirillov, Alexander Jr. (2001), Lectures on tensor categories and modular functors, University Lecture Series, 21, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-2686-7, MR 1797619 
  • Kirillov, Alexander Jr. (2008), An introduction to Lie groups and Lie algebras, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 113, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-88969-8, MR 2440737, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511755156 
  • Bakalov, Bojko; Kirillov, Alexander Jr. (2016), Quiver Representations and Quiver Varieties, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 174, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-1-4704-2307-0 

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    Alexander Kirillov Jr. Wikipedia
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