Nationality American Role Mathematician | Name Richard Kadison | |
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Born July 25, 1925 (age 99) ( 1925-07-25 ) Doctoral students James GlimmRichard LashofErling StormerGert PedersenMarc Rieffel Education University of Chicago (1950) Books Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Similar People John von Neumann, Huzihiro Araki, Marshall Harvey Stone | ||
Doctoral advisor Marshall Harvey Stone Notable awards Leroy P. Steele Prize |
Richard kadison university of pennsylvania relations between fourier analysis and quantum
Richard V. Kadison (born July 25, 1925) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras.
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Kadison is a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.
Kadison is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996), and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.
Richard Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Dick Kadison was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings. He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they have one son, Lars.