Richard Kadison
| Richard Kadison | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 1925 (age 88–89) |
| Nationality |
 United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Marshall Harvey Stone |
| Doctoral students |
James Glimm Richard Lashof Gert Pedersen Marc Rieffel |
| Known for |
Kadison–Kaplansky conjecture Kadison's inequality Kadison–Singer problem[1] |
| Notable awards | Steele Prize (1999) |
Richard V. Kadison (b. 1925[2]) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras. He is a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.[3]
Kadison is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996),[4][5] and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters[2] and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[6] He is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.[7]
Richard Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.[3][8] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[9]
Dick Kadison was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings. He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they have one son, Lars.
References
- ↑ Kadison-Singer Conjecture Succumbs to Proof | Mathematical Association of America
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Foreign Members list. Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Accessed January 12, 2010
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Richard Kadison wins 1999 AMS Steele Prize. Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed January 12, 2010.
- ↑ Kadison, Richard V., U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Accessed January 12, 2010. Election citation: "Kadison has been the principal figure in the American school of study of operator algebras in Hilbert space since the Second World War and one of the central leaders of the world development leading to applications in quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, noncommutative geometry, and knot theory."
- ↑ National Academy of Sciences Elects New Members. Science, 10 May 1996, Vol. 272. no. 5263, pp. 808; doi:10.1126/science.272.5263.808
- ↑ Academy members list, Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Accessed January 12, 2010.
- ↑ Guggenheim Fellow list, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Accessed January 12, 2010.
- ↑ 1999 Steele Prizes. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 46 (1999), no. 4, pp. 457–462.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.