Richard Kadison
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Richard Vincent Kadison (July 25, 1925 – August 22, 2018)[2] was an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras.
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Richard Kadison | |
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Born | (1925-07-25)July 25, 1925 |
Died | August 22, 2018(2018-08-22) (aged 93) Narberth, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education | University of Chicago |
Known for | Kadison–Kaplansky conjecture Kadison's inequality Kadison–Singer problem[1] Kadison transitivity theorem Kadison–Kastler metric |
Awards | Steele Prize (1999) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Thesis | A Unified Representation Theory for Topological Algebra (1950) |
Doctoral advisor | Marshall Harvey Stone |
Doctoral students | James Glimm Richard Lashof Marc Rieffel Mikael Rørdam Erling Størmer |
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