Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand {Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד, Russian: Израиль Моисеевич Гельфанд, Ukrainian: Ізраїль Мойсейович Гельфанд} (2 September [O.S. 20 August] 1913—5 October 2009) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who made major contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and linear algebra. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the O...
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Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand {Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד, Russian: Израиль Моисеевич Гельфанд, Ukrainian: Ізраїль Мойсейович Гельфанд} (2 September [O.S. 20 August] 1913—5 October 2009) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who made major contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and linear algebra. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Lenin and the Wolf Prize, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a lifelong academic, serving decades as a professor at Moscow State University and, after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday, at the Busch Campus of New Jersey's Rutgers University.
A native of Southern Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire, Israel Gelfand was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Okny (subsequently, Krasniye Okny) in Kherson Oblast. While he was still an adolescent, his level of academic achievement was...
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