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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Mathematician

Alma mater
  
Fields
  
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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Work

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.

Books

  • with John Ringrose: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras. 2 vols., Academic Press 1983; new edition, Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras: Elementary theory, Vol. 1, 1997 Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras: Advanced theory, Vol. 2, 1997 AMS 1997
  • with John Ringrose: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras, III-IV. An exercise approach, Birkhäuser, Basel, III: 1991, xiv+273 pp., ISBN 0-8176-3497-5; IV: 1992, xiv+586 pp., ISBN 0-8176-3498-3
  • PNAS articles

  • "On representations of finite type". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 95: 13392–6. 1998. PMC 24829 . PMID 9811810. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.23.13392. 
  • with I. M. Singer: "Some Remarks on Representations of Connected Groups". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 38: 419–23. 1952. PMC 1063576 . PMID 16589115. doi:10.1073/pnas.38.5.419. 
  • with Bent Fuglede: "On a Conjecture of Murray and von Neumann". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 37: 420–5. 1951. PMC 1063392 . PMID 16578376. doi:10.1073/pnas.37.7.420. 
  • with Zhe Liu: "A note on derivations of Murray–von Neumann algebras". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111: 2087–93. 2014. PMC 3926033 . PMID 24469831. doi:10.1073/pnas.1321358111. 
  • "The Pythagorean Theorem: II. The infinite discrete case". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99: 5217–22. 2002. PMC 122749 . PMID 16578869. doi:10.1073/pnas.032677299. 
  • "The Pythagorean Theorem: I. The finite case". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99: 4178–84. 2002. PMC 123622 . PMID 11929992. doi:10.1073/pnas.032677199. 
  • "Irreducible Operator Algebras". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 43: 273–6. 1957. PMC 528430 . PMID 16590013. doi:10.1073/pnas.43.3.273. 
  • "On the Additivity of the Trace in Finite Factors". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 41: 385–7. 1955. PMC 528101 . PMID 16589685. doi:10.1073/pnas.41.6.385. 
  • "Multiplicity Theory for Operator Algebras". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 41: 169–73. 1955. PMC 528046 . PMID 16589638. doi:10.1073/pnas.41.3.169. 
  • with Bent Fuglede: "On Determinants and a Property of the Trace in Finite Factors". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 37: 425–31. 1951. PMC 1063393 . PMID 16578377. doi:10.1073/pnas.37.7.425. 
  • References

    Richard Kadison Wikipedia


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