Isaiah Kantor (or Issai Kantor, or Isai Lʹvovich Kantor) (1936–2006) was a mathematician who introduced the
Kantor–Koecher–Tits construction In algebra, the Kantor–Koecher–Tits construction is a method of constructing a Lie algebra from a Jordan algebra
In abstract algebra, a Jordan algebra is a nonassociative algebra over a field whose multiplication satisfies the following axiom ...
, and the
Kantor double In mathematics, the Kantor double is a Jordan superalgebra structure on the sum of two copies of a Poisson algebra. It is named after Isaiah Kantor, who introduced it in .
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Poisson algebra In mathematics, a Poisson algebra is an associative algebra together with a Lie bracket that also satisfies Leibniz's law; that is, the bracket is also a derivation. Poisson algebras appear naturally in Hamiltonian mechanics, and are also central ...
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Russian mathematicians
2006 deaths
1936 births
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