Ola Bratteli
Norwegian mathematician and professor

Ola Bratteli

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Norwegian mathematician and professor
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24 October 1946
Death:
8 February 2015
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Trygve Bratteli
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Ola Bratteli (24 October 1946 – 8 February 2015) was a Norwegian mathematician.
He was a son of Trygve and Randi Bratteli. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1974, and was appointed professor at the University of Trondheim in 1980, and at the University of Oslo in 1991. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Selected works

  • with Derek W. Robinson: Operator Algebras and Quantum Statistical Mechanics (Springer-Verlag, 2 volumes, 1980)
  • Derivations, Dissipations and Group Actions on C*-algebras (Springer-Verlag, 1986)
  • with Palle T. Jørgensen: Wavelets through a looking glass, the world of the spectrum (Birkhäuser, 2002)
  • Sakai, Shōichirō (1982). "Review: Operator algebras and quantum statistical mechanics by Ola Bratelli and Derek W. Robinson". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 7: 425–427. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15056-X.