Israel Gelfand
Also known as Gelfand, Izrail M., Gel'fand Izrail Moiseevich, Israil Moiseivich Gelfand, Izrail Moiseevich Gel'fand, I. M. Gel'fand, Israel M. Gelfand, Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, Izrail Mojsejevič Geljfand
Soviet-American mathematician
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- Born
- 1913
- Died
- 2009
- Works
- 123
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- Calculus of Variations
- Trigonometry
- Method of Coordinates
- Collected Papers
- Algebraic Aspects of Integrable Systems
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Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד, Ukrainian: Ізраїль Мойсейович Гельфанд; 2 September [O.S. 20 August] 1913 – 5 October 2009) was a prominent Ukrainian-American mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, biologist, teacher and organizer of mathematical education. He made significant contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and functional analysis. The recipient of many awards, including the Order of Lenin and the first Wolf Prize, he was a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society and professor at Moscow State University and, after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday, at Rutgers University. Gelfand is also a 1994 MacArthur Fellow.
His legacy continues through his students, who include Endre Szemerédi, Alexandre Kirillov, Edward Frenkel, Joseph Bernstein, David Kazhdan, as well as his own son, Sergei Gelfand.
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