Bertram Kostant
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Bertram Kostant (May 24, 1928 – February 2, 2017)[1] was an American mathematician who worked in representation theory, differential geometry, and mathematical physics.
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Bertram Kostant | |
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Born | (1928-05-24)May 24, 1928 |
Died | February 2, 2017(2017-02-02) (aged 88) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Purdue University University of Chicago (PhD) |
Known for | Kostant's convexity theorem Kostant partition function Kostant polynomial Geometric quantization Kostant–Parthasarathy–Ranga Rao–Varadarajan determinants Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg theorem |
Awards | Wigner Medal (2016) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Representations of a Lie algebra and its enveloping algebra on a Hilbert space |
Doctoral advisor | Irving Segal |
Doctoral students | |
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