Richard Kadison

Richard Vincent Kadison ( born 1925 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who deals with functional analysis, operator algebras and mathematical physics.

Kadison in 1950 at the University of Chicago at Marshall Stone doctorate (PhD thesis: A unified representation theory of topological algebra ). 1950 to 1952 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study as a National Research Fellow. In 1952 he became an Assistant Professor at Columbia University, where in 1956 he became associate professor and in 1960 professor then. In 1964 he joined Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kadison has long been a leading scientist in the field of operator algebras, about which he wrote a four-volume monograph with John Ringrose.

His doctoral include James Glimm, Marc Rieffel and Richard Lashof.

1954/5 he was a Fulbright Fellow ( in Copenhagen), 1958-1962 Sloan Fellow and 1969/70 Guggenheim Fellow. In 1987 he became an honorary doctorate in Copenhagen and 1986 in Aix -Marseille. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Danish and Norwegian Academies of Sciences. In 1999 he received for his life's work the Leroy P. Steele Prize. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice (mappings of operator algebras ). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• With John Ringrose: Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras. 2 volumes, Academic Press 1983, reprint with the AMS 1997