Mark Iosifovich Graev (Марк Иосифович Граев, 21 November 1922,
Moscow – 22 April 2017) was a Russian
mathematician. He is known as one of the namesakes in the
Gelfand–Graev representation.
Education and career
Graev received his doctorate in 1947 from
Lomonosov Moscow State University with thesis ''Free topological groups'' under the supervision of
Alexander Kurosh. Graev was a professor at the
Scientific Research Institute of System Development of the
Russian Academy of Sciences and the
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He was a member of the Moscow circle of
Israel Gelfand, with whom he wrote several books. Graev was the co-author with Gelfand and
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro ( Hebrew: איליה פיאטצקי-שפירו; russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Пяте́цкий-Шапи́ро; 30 March 1929 – 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that s ...
of volume 5 (''Integral Geometry and Representation Theory'') and the co-author with Gelfand and
Naum Ya. Vilenkin of volume 6 (''Representation Theory and Automorphic Functions'') in the 6-volume monograph series ''Generalized Functions''.
In 1966 Graev was an Invited Speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
(ICM) in
Moscow. His ICM presentation ''Theory of Representation of Groups'' was joint work with
Alexander Kirillov.
References
External links
Graev at mathnet.ru
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20th-century Russian mathematicians
21st-century Russian mathematicians
Moscow State University alumni
Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1922 births
2017 deaths
Soviet mathematicians