Alexander Lvovich Rosenberg (Russian: Александр Львович Розенберг, 1946–2012)[2] was a Russian-American mathematician who worked on functional analysis, representation theory and noncommutative algebraic geometry.[3] He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1973, left the Soviet Union around 1987, and was a professor at Kansas State University until 2012.
Alexander L. Rosenberg | |
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Born | 1946 |
Died | 2012 |
Alma mater | Lomonosov Moscow State University (Ph.D., 1973) |
Known for | Noncommutative algebraic geometry, Gabriel-Rosenberg reconstruction theorem |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Kansas State University |
Doctoral advisor | Yuri Manin[1] |
He is known for his contributions to Tannaka duality and noncommutative algebraic geometry. He introduced several notions of spectrum for an abelian category (Rosenberg's spectrum), and the related Gabriel-Rosenberg reconstruction theorem bears his name.[4]