Fridrikh Israilevich Karpelevich

Fridrikh Israilevich Karpelevich (October 2, 1927 – July 5, 2000) was a Russian mathematician known for his work on semisimple Lie algebras, geometry, and probability theory.^[1] Together with Simon Gindikin, he discovered the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula.^[2]

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• Dynkin, E. B. (2003), "Friedrich Karpelevich: his early years in mathematics", in Gindikin, S. G., Lie groups and symmetric spaces. In memory of F. I. Karpelevich, American Mathematical Society Translations, Series 2, 210, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-3472-5, MR2021622, http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=TRANS2-210 
• Dynkin, È. B.; Gelfand, I. M.; Gindikin, S. G.; Malyshev, V.A.; Pyatetskii-Shapiro, I.S.; Rybko, A.N.; Shlosman, S.B.; Sukhov, Yu.M. et al. (2001), "Fridrikh Izrailevich Karpelevich (obituary)", Russian mathematical surveys 56 (1): 141–147, doi:10.1070/RM2001v056n01ABEH000359, ISSN 0042-1316, MR1845645 
• Gindikin, S. G.; Karpelevič, F. I. (1962), "Plancherel measure for symmetric Riemannian spaces of non-positive curvature" (in Russian), Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 145: 252–255, MR0150239 
• Knapp, A.W. (2003), "The Gindikin-Karpelevic formula and intertwining operators", Lie groups and symmetric spaces. In memory of F. I. Karpelevich, American Mathematical Society Translations, Series 2, 210, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, pp. 145–159, ISBN 978-0-8218-3472-5, MR2018359