Israel Gelfand

Israel Gelfand
Израиль Гельфанд
Born	(1913-09-02)September 2, 1913 Okny, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	October 5, 2009(2009-10-05) (aged 96) New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Citizenship	Soviet Union American
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Group theory Integral geometry Mathematical analysis Representation theory Gelfand–Levitan–Marchenko integral equation Gelfand–Pettis integral Gelfand representation Gelfand–Naimark theorem Liouville–Bratu–Gelfand equation
Awards	Order of Lenin (three times) ForMemRS (1977) Wolf Prize (1978) Wigner Medal (1980) Kyoto Prize in Mathematical Sciences (1989) AMS Steele Prize (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Moscow State University Rutgers University
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Kolmogorov
Doctoral students	Georgy Adelson-Velsky Felix Berezin Joseph Bernstein Victor Ginzburg Alexander Goncharov Tanya Khovanova Alexandre Kirillov Georgiy Shilov Endre Szemerédi Andrei Zelevinsky Vitalii Ditkin

Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד, Russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд, Ukrainian: Ізраїль Мойсейович Гельфанд; 2 September [O.S. 20 August] 1913 – 5 October 2009) was a prominent Soviet-American mathematician. 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,^[1] Joseph Bernstein, David Kazhdan, as well as his own son, Sergei Gelfand.