Richard Vincent Kadison (July 25, 1925 – August 22, 2018)[2] was an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras.
Richard Kadison | |
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Born | |
Died | August 22, 2018 Narberth, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 93)
Education | University of Chicago |
Known for | Kadison–Kaplansky conjecture Kadison's inequality Kadison–Singer problem[1] Kadison transitivity theorem Kadison–Kastler metric |
Awards | Steele Prize (1999) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Thesis | A Unified Representation Theory for Topological Algebra (1950) |
Doctoral advisor | Marshall Harvey Stone |
Doctoral students | James Glimm Richard Lashof Marc Rieffel Mikael Rørdam Erling Størmer |
Born in New York City in 1925,[3][4] Kadison was a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.[5]
Kadison was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996),[6][7] and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters[2] and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[8] He was a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.[9]
Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society.[5][10] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[11]
Kadison was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings, making the 1952 US Olympic Team but later withdrawing due to an injury.[12] He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they had one son, Lars.[12]
Kadison died after a short illness on August 22, 2018.[3]