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Marc Rieffel
American mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marc Aristide Rieffel is a mathematician noted for his fundamental contributions to C*-algebra[1] and quantum group theory.[2] He is currently a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Born | Marc Rieffel (1937-12-22) December 22, 1937 (age 86) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Known for | Noncommutative torus |
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Fields | C*-algebras Quantum group theory Noncommutative geometry |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Kadison |
Doctoral students | Philip Green Jonathan Rosenberg |
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In 2012, he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3]