Mathematician:Israel Moiseevich Gelfand

Mathematician
Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed considerably to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and linear algebra.

Did much good work in the field of education.

Not to be confused with.

Nationality
Ukrainian / Soviet / Russian

History

 * Born: 2 September 1913, Okny, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire, now Krasniye Okny, in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine)
 * Died: 5 October 2009, Highland Park, New Jersey, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Gelfand Representation in Banach algebra theory
 * Gelfand-Mazur Theorem in Banach algebra theory (with )
 * Gelfand-Naimark Theorem (with )
 * Gelfand-Naimark-Segal Construction (with and )
 * Gelfand-Pettis Integral (with )
 * Gelfand-Shilov Space (with )
 * Gelfand-Fuks Cohomology of Foliations (with )
 * Gelfand-Dikii Equations
 * Gelfand-Kirillov Dimension (with )
 * Gelfand-Levitan Theory (with )
 * Gelfand-Tsetlin Patterns (with )
 * Gelfand-Tsetlin Basis (with )
 * Gelfand Pair
 * Gelfand Triple

Publications

 * 1935: Abstract functions and linear operators
 * 1948: (translated into English by )
 * 1962: Automorphic functions and the theory of representations
 * 1963: (with ) (translated into English by )

Also known as
Variants of the transcription of his name can be seen, for example Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand.

Also rendered as:
 * Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד
 * Russian: Израиль Моисеевич Гельфанд
 * Ukrainian: Ізраїль Мойсейович Гельфанд