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Irving Segal · Science & Medicine

What

Functional analysis; the Segal quantization and C*-algebras

When

1918, The Bronx, New York City, United States — 1998, Lexington, Massachusetts, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Irving Segal is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Functional analysis; the Segal quantization and C*-algebras

How & why

Irving Ezra Segal was an American mathematician at MIT who was a founder of the mathematics of quantum theory, introducing C*-algebra methods, the Segal quantization, and results in functional analysis and mathematical physics. He also proposed the 'chronometric' cosmology. He is Jewish.

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Functional analysis; the Segal quantization and C*-algebras

1918

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics