Calvin C. Moore (November 2, 1936 – July 26, 2023) was an American mathematician who worked in the theory of

operator algebra In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, an operator algebra is an algebra of continuous linear operators on a topological vector space, with the multiplication given by the composition of mappings. The results obtained in the study o ...

s and

topological group In mathematics, topological groups are the combination of groups and topological spaces, i.e. they are groups and topological spaces at the same time, such that the continuity condition for the group operations connects these two structures ...

s. Moore graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and with a Ph.D. in 1960 under the supervision of George Mackey (''Extensions and cohomology theory of locally compact groups''). In 1961 he became assistant professor at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

and professor in 1966. From 1977 to 1980, he was director of the Center for Pure and Applied mathematics. With Shiing-Shen Chern and Isadore Singer, he co-founded Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in 1982. From 1964 to 1965 he was at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...

in Princeton, New Jersey. He was a fellow of the

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. From 1965 to 1967 he was a Sloan Fellow. From 1971 to 1979 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

, whose fellow he is. Since 1977, he is co-editor of the ''

Pacific Journal of Mathematics The Pacific Journal of Mathematics is a mathematics research journal supported by several universities and research institutes, and currently published on their behalf by Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a non-profit academic publishing organisa ...

''. From 1978 to 1979 he was a Miller research professor at Berkeley. He has written on a history of mathematics at Berkeley. His students include Roger Howe,

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, , and Michael Erceg.

Writings

* With Claude Schochet, ''Global Analysis on Foliated Spaces'', MSRI Publications,

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1988, 2nd ed.,

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

2006.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Calvin C. 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 1936 births 2023 deaths Harvard University alumni American historians of mathematics University of California, Berkeley faculty Scientists from New York City American founders Mathematicians from New York (state)