Introduction
Richard V. Kadison (born July 25, 1925) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras.
Work
Kadison is a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.
Kadison is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996), and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.
Richard Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Dick Kadison was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings. He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they have one son, Lars.
Selected publications
Books
- with John Ringrose: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras. 2 vols., Academic Press 1983; new edition, Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras: Elementary theory, Vol. 1, 1997 Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras: Advanced theory, Vol. 2, 1997 AMS 1997
- with John Ringrose: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras, III-IV. An exercise approach, Birkhäuser, Basel, III: 1991, xiv+273 pp., ISBN 0-8176-3497-5; IV: 1992, xiv+586 pp., ISBN 0-8176-3498-3
PNAS articles
- with I. M. Singer:
- with Bent Fuglede:
- with Zhe Liu:
- with Bent Fuglede: