Robert Moody

Robert Vaughan Moody ( born November 28, 1941) is a Canadian mathematician.

Life

Moody was born in the UK. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, where in 1962 he earned his bachelor 's degree, and at the University of Toronto where he made ​​1964 his master's degree in mathematics and in 1966 Maria Wonenburger with the dissertation Lie algebras associated to generalized Cartan matrices obtained his doctorate. In the same year he became an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan, 1970 Associate Professor and Professor in 1976. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta in 1989. He is there now (2007) Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria. He was, inter alia, a visiting professor at the University of Bonn, the total high school Wuppertal, at the University Pierre and Marie Curie ( Paris VI University ) and at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay.

Moody 's with Victor Kac Kac - Moody the discoverer of algebras, an infinite-dimensional generalization of Lie algebras, which is used in much of modern physics ( string theory ). He also dealt with the design calculation of the representation of Lie groups and algebras, (some with Jiří Patera ) and is also interested in quasicrystals, mathematics in art and photography.

He was Officer of the Order of Canada in 1980 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999. In 1996 he received the Wigner Medal with Kac. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Montreal.

Writings

  • Baake, Grimm, Moody: The hidden order of quasicrystals, Spectrum, February 2002
  • Kass, Moody, Patera, Slansky: Affine Lie Algebras, weight multiplicities and branching rules, 2 vols, University of California Press 1991
  • Moody, Bremner, Patera: Tables of weight space multiplicities, Marcel Dekker 1983
  • Moody, Patera Fast recursion formula for weight multiplicities, Bulletin AMS, 7, 1982, 237-242, online
  • Moody, Pianzola: Lie algebras with triangular decompositions, Canadian Mathematical Society Series, John Wiley 1995
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