Richard Vincent Kadison (July 25, 1925 – August 22, 2018) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras.
Career Born in New York City in 1925, Kadison was a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.Richard Kadison wins 1999 AMS Steele Prize. Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed January 12, 2010.
Kadison was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996),Kadison, Richard V., U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Accessed January 12, 2010. Election citation: "Kadison has been the principal figure in the American school of study of operator algebras in Hilbert space since the Second World War and one of the central leaders of the world development leading to applications in quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, noncommutative geometry, and knot theory." and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (elected 1974) and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.Academy members list, Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Accessed January 12, 2010. He was a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.Guggenheim Fellow list, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Accessed January 12, 2010.
Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
Personal life Kadison served as an officer in the merchant marines for several years after 1943. He was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings, making the 1952 US Olympic Team but later withdrawing due to an injury. He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they had one son, Lars.
Kadison died after a short illness on August 22, 2018.
Selected publications
Books with John Ringrose: Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras 2 vols., Academic Press 1983; new edition, Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras: Elementary theory, Vol. 1, 1997 Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras: Advanced theory, Vol. 2, 1997 AMS 1997Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume I, AMS websiteFundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume II, AMS website with John Ringrose: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras, III-IV. An exercise approach, Birkhäuser, Basel, III: 1991, xiv+273 pp., ; IV: 1992, xiv+586 pp., Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume III, AMS websiteFundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras. Volume IV, AMS website
PNAS articles
with I. M. Singer: with Bent Fuglede: with Zhe Liu:
with Bent Fuglede:
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