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.
Career
Born in New York City in 1925,[3][4] Kadison was a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.[5]
Kadison was a member of the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996),[6][7] and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters[2] and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[8] He was a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.[9]
Kadison was awarded the 1999
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.[5][10] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[11]
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.[12] He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they had one son, Lars.[12]
Kadison died after a short illness on August 22, 2018.[3]
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[13][14]
- with John Ringrose: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras, III-IV. An exercise approach, Birkhäuser, Basel, III: 1991, xiv+273 pp.,
PNAS articles
- Kadison, R. V. (1998). "On representations of finite type". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 95 (23): 13392–6. PMID 9811810.
- with PMID 16589115.
- with PMID 16578376.
- with Zhe Liu: Kadison, Richard V.; Liu, Zhe (2014). "A note on derivations of Murray–von Neumann algebras". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111 (6): 2087–93. PMID 24469831.
- Kadison, R. V. (2002). "The Pythagorean Theorem: II. The infinite discrete case". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99 (8): 5217–22. PMID 16578869.
- Kadison, R. V. (2002). "The Pythagorean Theorem: I. The finite case". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99 (7): 4178–84. PMID 11929992.
- Kadison, R. V. (1957). "Irreducible Operator Algebras". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 43 (3): 273–6. PMID 16590013.
- Kadison, R. V. (1955). "On the Additivity of the Trace in Finite Factors". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 41 (6): 385–7. PMID 16589685.
- Kadison, R. V. (1955). "Multiplicity Theory for Operator Algebras". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 41 (3): 169–73. PMID 16589638.
- with Bent Fuglede: Fuglede, B.; Kadison, R. V. (1951). "On Determinants and a Property of the Trace in Finite Factors". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 37 (7): 425–31. PMID 16578377.
References
- ^ Kadison–Singer Conjecture Succumbs to Proof | Mathematical Association of America
- ^ a b Foreign Members list.[permanent dead link] Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Accessed January 12, 2010
- ^ a b "In Memoriam, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mathematics". University of Pennsylvania.
- ^ "Library of Congress Name Authority File". Library of Congress.
- ^ a b Richard Kadison wins 1999 AMS Steele Prize. Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed January 12, 2010.
- 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."
- S2CID 220101739.
- ^ 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" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 46 (4): 457–462. 1999.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
- ^ doi:10.1090/noti1949.
- ^ Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume I, AMS website
- ^ Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume II, AMS website
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- ^ Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume III, AMS website
- ^ Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume IV, AMS website
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