David Kazhdan
David Kazhdan · Science & Medicine
Representation theory; Kazhdan's property (T)
1946, Moscow, USSR
Russia · United States · Israel
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David Kazhdan is a mathematician whose work transformed representation theory and its links to number theory and geometry; he introduced Kazhdan's Property (T) for groups and, with George Lusztig, the Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials. Born into a Jewish family in Moscow, he emigrated and has held chairs at Harvard and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Representation theory; Kazhdan's property (T)
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