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Science & Medicine
Bertram Kostant
Who
Bertram Kostant · Science & Medicine
What
Representation theory and Lie group theory
When
1928, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2017, United States
Where
United States
Biography
Bertram Kostant is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Representation theory and Lie group theory
How & why
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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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Contributions & Sources
Representation theory and Lie group theory
1928
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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