Israel Gelfand
Mathematician, Academic
1913 – 2009
Who was Israel Gelfand?
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand was a Soviet mathematician who made major contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and functional analysis. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Lenin and the Wolf Prize, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a lifelong academic, serving decades as a professor at Moscow State University and, after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday, at the Busch Campus of New Jersey's Rutgers University.
He is known for having educated and inspired generations of students through his legendary seminar at Moscow State University. His legacy continues in the mathematicians who were his students, such as Endre Szemerédi, Alexandre Kirillov, Joseph Bernstein, Dmitry Fuchs as well as his own son, Sergei Gelfand.
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- Born
- Sep 2, 1913
Russian Empire - Also known as
- Izrail M. Gelfand
- I. M Gelʹfand
- I. M. Gelfand
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Russia
- Soviet Union
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Died
- Oct 5, 2009
New Brunswick
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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