Bertram Kostant
Bertram Kostant · Science & Medicine
Representation theory and Lie group theory
1928, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2017, United States
United States
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Kostant was an American mathematician at MIT who made deep contributions to representation theory and the theory of Lie groups, including the Kostant partition function, results on symmetric spaces, and geometric quantization. His work bridged Lie theory, geometry and mathematical physics. He was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn.
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Representation theory and Lie group theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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