Harish-Chandra

Harish-Chandra

male, deceased (1983)
Allahabad University alumni, semisimple, harmonic analysis, Lie groups, Alumni of the University of Cambridge, From kanpur…representationtheory
Harish-Chandra, was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie...
William Fulton

William Fulton

male, 70 years old
University of Chicago, intersection theory, representationtheory, Steele Prize, Erdős number 2, National Academy of Sciences
William Fulton (born 1939) is an American algebraic geometer. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1961 and his doctorate...
Robert Langlands

Robert Langlands

male, 73 years old
New Westminster, Robert Phelan Langlands, Langlands program, Wolf Prize recipient, arithmetic group, algebraic number theory…class field theory, automorphic representation, representationtheory, number theory
Robert Phelan Langlands (born October 6, 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) is one of the most significant mathematicians of the...
Terence Tao

Terence Tao

male, 34 years old
Chinese American, Fellow of the Royal Society, From Adelaide, Chinese Australian, child prodigy, University of California, Los Angeles…representationtheory, analytic number theory
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic...
Andrei Okounkov

Andrei Okounkov

male, 40 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, International Congress of Mathematician, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Erdős number 3, probability theory…representationtheory
Andrei Okounkov is a mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability...
George Lusztig

George Lusztig

male, 63 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Jewish person, Institute for Advanced Study, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fellow of the Royal Society, mathematician, Princeton University alumni…representationtheory, index theory
George (Gheorghe) Lusztig is a Romanian-born American mathematician. He is a Norbert Wiener Professor at the Department of Mathematics, MIT. He did...
Bertram Kostant

Bertram Kostant

male
Lie algebra, mathematician, Institute for Advanced Study, MIT, homogeneous space, Lie group…representationtheory
Bertram Kostant is a leading American mathematician. Kostant grew up in New York City, where he graduated from the celebrated Stuyvesant High...

Roger Howe

male
Putnam Fellow, Harvard University, United States National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Berkeley alumni, Putnam Fellows, representationtheory…Group representation
Roger Evans Howe is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. He is well-known for his contributions to Representation...
David Kazhdan

David Kazhdan

male
Orthodox Jew, Harvard University, Israeli, judaism, mathematician, MacArthur Fellow…representationtheory
David Kazhdan is an Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. The son of Alexander Kazhdan, he was born in 1946 in Moscow,...
Victor Kac

Victor Kac

male
mathematician, Lie superalgebra, Macdonald identity, Kac–Moody algebra, Macdonald identities, Kac determinant formula…representationtheory
Victor Kac is an American mathematician at MIT, known for his work in representation theory. He discovered Kac–Moody algebras, and used the We...