Bertram Kostant (born 1928) is a leading American mathematician.
Kostant grew up in New York City, where he graduated from the celebrated Stuyvesant High School in 1945. He went on to obtain an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Purdue University in 1950. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1954, under the direction of Irving Segal, where he wrote a dissertation on representations of Lie groups.
After stints at the Institu...
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Bertram Kostant (born 1928) is a leading American mathematician.
Kostant grew up in New York City, where he graduated from the celebrated Stuyvesant High School in 1945. He went on to obtain an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Purdue University in 1950. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1954, under the direction of Irving Segal, where he wrote a dissertation on representations of Lie groups.
After stints at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and UC Berkeley, he joined the faculty at MIT, where he remained until his retirement in 1993. Kostant's work has involved many of the most beautiful ideas in modern mathematics, such as representation theory, Lie groups, Lie algebras, homogeneous spaces, differential geometry and mathematical physics, particularly symplectic geometry. He has given several lectures on the Lie group E8. He has been one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization. His introduction of the theory...
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