Israel Gelfand
Soviet mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Boris Gelfand.
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד, Russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд; 2 September [O.S. 20 August] 1913 – 5 October 2009) was a famous Soviet mathematician. He worked on many branches of mathematics, including group theory and other areas related to differential equations.
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Israïl Moiseevich Gelfand | |
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Born | (1913-09-02)September 2, 1913 |
Died | October 5, 2009(2009-10-05) (aged 96) |
Nationality | Soviet Union Russian |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Known for | Group theory mathematical analysis Gelfand–Levitan–Marchenko integral equation Liouville–Bratu–Gelfand equation Gelfand-Pettis integral Gelfand representation Gelfand-Naimark theorem |
Awards | Order of Lenin (three times) ForMemRS (1977) Wolf Prize (1978) Wigner Medal (1980) Kyoto Prize in Mathematical sciences (1989) AMS Steele Prize (2005) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematician |
Institutions | Moscow State University Rutgers University |
Doctoral advisor | Andrey Kolmogorov |
Doctoral students | Georgy Adelson-Velsky Felix Berezin Joseph Bernstein Victor Ginzburg Alexander Goncharov Tanya Khovanova Alexandre Kirillov Georgiy Shilov Endre Szemerédi Andrei Zelevinsky Vitalii Ditkin |
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He received many awards, including the Order of Lenin and the first Wolf Prize, he was also a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society and professor at Moscow State University, and worked at Rutgers University after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday.