Fridrikh Israilevich Karpelevich (russian: Фридрих Израилевич Карпелевич; 2 October 1927 – 5 July 2000) was a Russian mathematician known for his work on

semisimple Lie algebra In mathematics, a Lie algebra is semisimple if it is a direct sum of simple Lie algebras. (A simple Lie algebra is a non-abelian Lie algebra without any non-zero proper ideals). Throughout the article, unless otherwise stated, a Lie algebra i ...

geometry Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is c ...

, and

probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set o ...

. Together with

Simon Gindikin Simon Grigorevich Gindikin (russian: Семён Григорьевич Гиндикин; born 7 December 1937, Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a mathematician at Rutgers University who introduced the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula for the Harish-Chandra ...

, he discovered the

Gindikin–Karpelevich formula In mathematics, Harish-Chandra's ''c''-function is a function related to the intertwining operator between two principal series representations, that appears in the Plancherel measure for semisimple Lie groups. introduced a special case of it ...

.The original paper is . See for a review.

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