Murray Gerstenhaber
Murray Gerstenhaber · Science & Medicine
Deformation theory; Gerstenhaber algebras
1927, United States — 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
United States
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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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Deformation theory; Gerstenhaber algebras
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