Israel Gelfand

Israel Gelfand
Израиль Гельфанд
Born(1913-09-02)September 2, 1913
DiedOctober 5, 2009(2009-10-05) (aged 96)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
CitizenshipSoviet Union American
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forGroup theory
Integral geometry
Mathematical analysis
Representation theory
Gelfand–Levitan–Marchenko integral equation
Gelfand–Pettis integral
Gelfand representation
Gelfand–Naimark theorem
Liouville–Bratu–Gelfand equation
AwardsOrder of Lenin (three times)
ForMemRS (1977)
Wolf Prize (1978)
Wigner Medal (1980)
Kyoto Prize in Mathematical Sciences (1989)
AMS Steele Prize (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsMoscow State University
Rutgers University
Doctoral advisorAndrey Kolmogorov
Doctoral studentsGeorgy 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.

  1. ^ Edward Frenkel (2013). "preface". Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465050741. One of my teachers, the great Israel Gelfand