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Murray Gerstenhaber

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Murray Gerstenhaber · Science & Medicine

What

Deformation theory; Gerstenhaber algebras

When

1927, United States — 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Murray Gerstenhaber is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Deformation theory; Gerstenhaber algebras

How & why

Gerstenhaber was an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania who founded algebraic deformation theory and introduced the Gerstenhaber algebra and bracket, structures now central to deformation quantization and quantum groups. His work was honored with the 2021 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Deformation theory; Gerstenhaber algebras

1927

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics