Richard Vincent Kadison (July 25, 1925 – August 22, 2018)Foreign Members list.

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. Accessed January 12, 2010 was an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

known for his contributions to the study 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 of ...

Work

Born in New York City in 1925, Kadison was a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

.Richard Kadison wins 1999 AMS Steele Prize.
Department of Mathematics,

. Accessed January 12, 2010. Kadison was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996), and a foreign member of the

and of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Unive ...

. He was a 1969

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...

. Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by 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, ...

. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Personal

Kadison was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings, making the 1952 US Olympic Team but later withdrawing due to an injury. He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they had one son, Lars. Kadison died after a short illness on August 22, 2018.

Selected publications

Books

*with John Ringrose: ''Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras.'' 2 vols., Academic Press 1983; new edition
''Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras: Elementary theory'', Vol. 1, 1997
AMS 1997 *with John Ringrose: ''Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras, III-IV. An exercise approach'', Birkhäuser, Basel, III: 1991, xiv+273 pp., ; IV: 1992, xiv+586 pp., ''Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras''. Volume IV, AMS website
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''PNAS'' articles

* *with I. M. Singer: *with

Bent Fuglede Bent Fuglede (born 8 October 1925) is a Danish mathematician and, since 1992, professor emeritus at the University of Copenhagen. Biography He is known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, in particular functional analysis, where he ...

: *with Zhe Liu: * * * * * *with Bent Fuglede:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kadison, Richard 1925 births 2018 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences University of Chicago alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Fellows of the American Mathematical Society The Bronx High School of Science alumni People from New York City