Israel Gelfand
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד, Russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд; 2 September [O.S. 20 August] 1913 – 5 October 2009) was a famous Soviet mathematician. He worked on many branches of mathematics, including group theory and other areas related to differential equations.
Israïl Moiseevich Gelfand | |
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| Born | September 2, 1913 |
| Died | October 5, 2009 (aged 96) |
| Nationality | Soviet Union Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Group theory mathematical analysis Gelfand–Levitan–Marchenko integral equation Liouville–Bratu–Gelfand equation Gelfand-Pettis integral Gelfand representation Gelfand-Naimark theorem |
| 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 students | Georgy Adelson-Velsky Felix Berezin Joseph Bernstein Victor Ginzburg Alexander Goncharov Tanya Khovanova Alexandre Kirillov Georgiy Shilov Endre Szemerédi Andrei Zelevinsky Vitalii Ditkin |
He received many awards, including the Order of Lenin and the first Wolf Prize, he was also a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society and professor at Moscow State University, and worked at Rutgers University after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday.
Books
- Gelfand, I. M.. Lectures on linear algebra (1998)Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-66082-0.
- Gelfand, I. M.. Calculus of variations (1963). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Inc.. ISBN 978-0-486-41448-5.
- Gelfand, I.. Commutative normed rings. Translated from the Russian, with a supplementary chapter (1964). New York: Chelsea Publishing Co.. ISBN 978-0-8218-2022-3.
- Gel'fand, I. M.. Generalized functions. Vol. I: Properties and operations. Translated by Eugene Saletan (1964). Boston, MA: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-279501-5.[1]
- Gelfand, I. M.. Generalized functions. Vol. 2. Spaces of fundamental and generalized functions. Translated from the Russian by Morris D. Friedman, Amiel Feinstein and Christian P. Peltzer (1968). Boston, MA: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-279502-2.[1]
- Gelfand, I. M.. Generalized functions. Vol. 3: Theory of differential equations. Translated from the Russian by Meinhard E. Mayer (1967). Boston, MA: Academic Press.[1]
- Gelfand, I. M.. Generalized functions. Vol. 4: Applications of harmonic analysis. Translated by Amiel Feinstein (1964). Boston, MA: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-279504-6.[1]
- Gelfand, I. M.. Generalized functions. Vol. 5: Integral geometry and representation theory. Translated from the Russian by Eugene Saletan (1966). Boston, MA: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-279505-3.[1]
- Gelfand, I. M.. Representation theory and automorphic functions. Translated from the Russian by K. A. Hirsch (1969). Philadelphia, Pa.: W. B. Saunders Co.. ISBN 978-0-12-279506-0.
- Gelfand, Izrail M.. Collected papers. Vol. I (1987). Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-13619-4.
- Gelfand, Izrail M.. Collected papers. Vol. II (1988). Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-19035-6.
- Gelfand, Izrail M.. Collected papers. Vol. III (1989). Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-19399-9.
- Gelfand, I. M.. Discriminants, resultants, and multidimensional determinants (1994)Boston: Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-0-8176-3660-9.[2]
- Gelfand, I. M.. Selected topics in integral geometry. Translations of Mathematical Monographs 220 (2003). Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-2932-5.
- Borovik, Alexandre V.. Coxeter matroids. Progress in Mathematics 216 (2003). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston. ISBN 978-0-8176-3764-4.
- Generalized Functions Volumes, 1-6, American Math Society, (2015)
Other websites
- Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, dedicated site, maintained by Tatiana V. Gelfand and Tatiana I. Gelfand
- Israel Gelfand - Daily Telegraph obituary
- Israel Gelfand - Guardian obituary
- Israel Gelfand at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J. Israel Gelfand.
- Web page at Rutgers
- List of publications.
- Steele Prize citation Archived 2012-09-30 at the Wayback Machine.
- The unity of mathematics – In honor of the ninetieth burthday of I. M. Gelfand
- Interview: "A talk with professor I. M. Gelfand.", recorded by V. Retakh and A. Sosinsky, Kvant (1989), no. 1, 3–12 (in Russian). English translation in: Quantum (1991), no. 1, 20–26. (Link)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Guillemin, Victor. Review: Generalized functions, by I. M. Gel'fand and G. E. Shilov. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 3 (1, Part 1) (1980). p. 758–762. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1980-14813-2. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ↑ Catanese, Fabrizio. Review: Discriminants, resultants, and multidimensional determinants, by I. M. Gelfand, M. M. Kapranov, and A. V. Zelevinsky. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 37 (2) (2000). p. 183–198. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-99-00858-7. Retrieved 2020-04-16.