Mark Grigorievich Krein ( uk, Марко́ Григо́рович Крейн, russian: Марк Григо́рьевич Крейн; 3 April 1907 – 17 October 1989) was a Soviet mathematician, one of the major figures of the
Soviet
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school of
functional analysis
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. He is known for works in
operator theory
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(in close connection with concrete problems coming from
mathematical physics
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),
the problem of moments,
classical analysis
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These theories are usually studied in ...
and
representation theory
Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. In essen ...
.
He was born in
Kyiv
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Ky ...
, leaving home at age 17 to go to
Odessa
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. He had a difficult academic career, not completing his first degree and constantly being troubled by
anti-Semitic
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Antis ...
discrimination. His supervisor was
Nikolai Chebotaryov
Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov (often spelled Chebotarov or Chebotarev, uk, Мико́ла Григо́рович Чеботарьо́в, russian: Никола́й Григо́рьевич Чеботарёв) ( – 2 July 1947) was a Ukrainian ...
.
He was awarded the
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
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in 1982 (jointly with
Hassler Whitney
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),
but was not allowed to attend the ceremony.
David Milman
David Pinhusovich Milman (russian: Дави́д Пи́нхусович Ми́льман; 15 January 1912, Chechelnyk near Vinnytsia – 12 July 1982, Tel Aviv) was a Soviet and later Israeli mathematician specializing in functional analysis. ...
,
Mark Naimark,
Israel Gohberg
Israel Gohberg ( he, ישראל גוכברג; russian: Изра́иль Цу́дикович Го́хберг; 23 August 1928 – 12 October 2009) was a Bessarabian-born Soviet and Israeli mathematician, most known for his work in operator theory ...
,
Vadym Adamyan,
Mikhail Livsic and other known mathematicians were his students.
He died in Odessa.
On 14 January 2008, the memorial plaque of Mark Krein was unveiled on the main administration building of
I.I. Mechnikov Odessa National University.
See also
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Tannaka–Krein duality
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Krein–Milman theorem
In the mathematical theory of functional analysis, the Krein–Milman theorem is a proposition about compact convex sets in locally convex topological vector spaces (TVSs).
This theorem generalizes to infinite-dimensional spaces and to arbitrar ...
and
Krein–Rutman theorem in
functional analysis
Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. inner product, norm, topology, etc.) and the linear functions defi ...
*
Krein space
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Krein's condition for the indeterminacy of the
problem of moments
In mathematics, a moment problem arises as the result of trying to invert the mapping that takes a measure ''μ'' to the sequences of moments
:m_n = \int_^\infty x^n \,d\mu(x)\,.
More generally, one may consider
:m_n = \int_^\infty M_n(x) ...
External links
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Modern Analysis and Applications (MAA 2007). Dedicated to the centenary of Mark Krein*
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1907 births
1989 deaths
Soviet mathematicians
Ukrainian Jews
Scientists from Kyiv
Wolf Prize in Mathematics laureates
Operator theorists
Functional analysts
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences