Israel Gelfand

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American mathematician Soviet mathematician human mathematician

Israel Gelfand was a prominent Soviet and later American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to functional analysis, representation theory, and many other areas of modern mathematics.

Aliases (3)

Gelfand ×1
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand ×1
Израиль Моисеевич Гельфанд ×1

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American mathematician → Soviet mathematician → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences → Lobachevsky Prize → National Medal of Science → Order of Lenin → Stalin Prize → Wolf Prize in Mathematics →
birthDate	1913-09-02 →
birthPlace	Okny, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire →
countryOfCitizenship	Soviet Union → United States of America →
deathDate	2009-10-05 →
deathPlace	New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States →
educatedAt	Moscow State University →
employer	Moscow State University → Rutgers University → Steklov Institute of Mathematics →
ethnicGroup	Jewish people →
familyName	Gelfand →
fieldOfWork	algebra → functional analysis → integral geometry → mathematical physics → mathematics → partial differential equations → representation theory → topology →
fullName	Israel Moiseevich Gelfand →
givenName	Israel →
knownFor	Gelfand representation of commutative C*-algebras → Gelfand transform → Gelfand triples (rigged Hilbert spaces) → Gelfand–Kirillov dimension → Gelfand–Levitan theory → Gelfand–Naimark theorem → Gelfand–Tsetlin basis → cohomology of Lie groups and Lie algebras → distributions and generalized functions → integral geometry and Radon transforms → representation theory of Lie groups →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → Russian →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America → Russian Academy of Sciences → USSR Academy of Sciences →
nativeName	Израиль Моисеевич Гельфанд →
notableStudent	Alexander Kirillov → Boris Levitan → Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro → Joseph Bernstein → Ludvig Faddeev → Mark Naimark → Mikhail Graev → Sergei Gelfand → Sergei Novikov → Vladimir Retakh →
notableWork	Generalized Functions (multi-volume series) → Methods of Representation Theory → Representation Theory and Automorphic Functions →
positionHeld	professor of mathematics →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Israel Gelfand ("Gelfand") →	familyName
Israel Gelfand ("Israel Moiseevich Gelfand") →	fullName
Wolf Prize in Mathematics →	hasLaureate
Alain Connes →	influencedBy
Israel Gelfand ("Израиль Моисеевич Гельфанд") →	nativeName