Professor
Richard V. Kadison
(
–
)
1925
2018
University of Pennsylvania
;
Philadelphia, PA
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2018
Richard V. Kadison was the Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. Kadison did transformational research, including formulation of the Kadison-Singer problem. He inspired PhD students at Columbia and Pennsylvania, so that now he has over 400 mathematical descendants. His vision enabled the Pennsylvania mathematics department to become an operator-algebra powerhouse. His books with Ringrose are classics. He chaired the mathematics section of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition, he was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and Norweigen Academy of Science and Letters.
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