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Richard Kadison

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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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Career

Born in New York City in 1925,[2][3] Kadison was a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.[4]

Kadison was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996),[5][6] and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (elected 1974)[2] and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[7] He was a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.[8]

Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.[4][9] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10]

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Personal life

Kadison was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings, making the 1952 US Olympic Team but later withdrawing due to an injury.[11] He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they had one son, Lars.[11]

Kadison died after a short illness on August 22, 2018.[2]

Selected publications

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[12][13]
  • 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[14][15][16]

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References

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