Richard Kadison
American mathematician
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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.
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| Born | July 25, 1925 |
| 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[1] 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) |
| Marshall Harvey Stone | |
Doctoral students | James Glimm Richard Lashof Marc Rieffel Mikael Rørdam Erling Størmer |
Career
Born in New York City in 1925,[2][3] Kadison was a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.[4]
Kadison was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996),[5][6] and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (elected 1974)[2] and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[7] He was a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.[8]
Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.[4][9] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10]
Personal life
Kadison served as an officer in the merchant marines for several years after 1943.[11] He 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.[2]
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., ISBN 0-8176-3497-5; IV: 1992, xiv+586 pp., ISBN 0-8176-3498-3[15][16][17]
PNAS articles
- Kadison, R. V. (1998). "On representations of finite type". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 95 (23): 13392–6. Bibcode:1998PNAS...9513392K. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.23.13392. PMC 24829. PMID 9811810.
- with I. M. Singer: Kadison, R. V.; Singer, I. M. (1952). "Some Remarks on Representations of Connected Groups". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 38 (5): 419–23. Bibcode:1952PNAS...38..419K. doi:10.1073/pnas.38.5.419. PMC 1063576. PMID 16589115.
- with Bent Fuglede: Fuglede, B.; Kadison, R. V. (1951). "On a Conjecture of Murray and von Neumann". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 37 (7): 420–5. Bibcode:1951PNAS...37..420F. doi:10.1073/pnas.37.7.420. PMC 1063392. 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. Bibcode:2014PNAS..111.2087K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1321358111. PMC 3926033. 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. Bibcode:2002PNAS...99.5217K. doi:10.1073/pnas.032677299. PMC 122749. PMID 16578869.
- Kadison, R. V. (2002). "The Pythagorean Theorem: I. The finite case". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99 (7): 4178–84. Bibcode:2002PNAS...99.4178K. doi:10.1073/pnas.032677199. PMC 123622. PMID 11929992.
- Kadison, R. V. (1957). "Irreducible Operator Algebras". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 43 (3): 273–6. Bibcode:1957PNAS...43..273K. doi:10.1073/pnas.43.3.273. PMC 528430. 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. Bibcode:1955PNAS...41..385K. doi:10.1073/pnas.41.6.385. PMC 528101. PMID 16589685.
- Kadison, R. V. (1955). "Multiplicity Theory for Operator Algebras". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 41 (3): 169–73. Bibcode:1955PNAS...41..169K. doi:10.1073/pnas.41.3.169. PMC 528046. 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. Bibcode:1951PNAS...37..425F. doi:10.1073/pnas.37.7.425. PMC 1063393. PMID 16578377.