Igor Frenkel

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Igor Borisovich Frenkel (born April 22, 1952) is a mathematician working in mathematical physics. In collaboration with James Lepowsky and Arne Meurman he constructed the monster vertex algebra.

Born in Leningrad, USSR (Now St. Petersburg, Russia), Frenkel emigrated to the United States in 1979. He has held numerous teaching positions, including tenured professor at Rutgers University, before taking his current job of tenured professor at Yale University. He resides in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife and son.

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• Igor Frenkel, James Lepowsky, Arne Meurman, "Vertex operator algebras and the Monster". Pure and Applied Mathematics, 134. Academic Press, Inc., Boston, MA, 1988. liv+508 pp. ISBN 0-12-267065-5
• home page
• Igor Frenkel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project