Richard Kadison
Richard Kadison | |
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| Born | July 25, 1925 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 22, 2018 (aged 93) Narberth, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | University of Chicago |
| Known for | Kadison–Kaplansky conjecture Kadison's inequality Kadison–Singer problem Kadison transitivity theorem Kadison–Kastler metric |
| Awards | Steele Prize (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thesis | A Unified Representation Theory for Topological Algebra (1950) |
Doctoral advisor | Marshall Harvey Stone |
Doctoral students | James Glimm Richard Lashof Marc Rieffel Mikael Rørdam Erling Størmer |
Richard Vincent Kadison (July 25, 1925 – August 22, 2018) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras.