标题: 以色列-M-格尔凡德 数学家和生物学家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-2-28 22:04 标题: 以色列-M-格尔凡德 数学家和生物学家 Israel M. Gelfand
Mathematician and Biologist | Class of 1994
Title
Mathematician and Biologist
Location
Piscataway Township, New Jersey
Age
81 at time of award
Deceased
October 5, 2009
Area of Focus
Mathematics, Statistics, and Probability
Published July 1, 1994
ABOUT ISRAEL'S WORK
Israel Gelfand is a mathematician and a biologist, whose innovative methodologies helped to redefine the field of functional analysis.
He has been a crucial figure in twentieth-century mathematics. His achievements include development of a theory of commutative, normed rings and a theory of representations of non-compact groups. In 1960, reflecting his interest in cell biology, he co-established the Institute of Biological Physics with other scientists at the U.S.S.R.’s Academy of Sciences. Gelfand’s breadth of research includes the development of general principles of organization of control in complex, multicell systems, research in C*-algebras, integral geometry, inverse problems, nonlinear differential equations, modern theory of hypergeometric functions, and noncommutative algebra. He has written more than five hundred papers on mathematics, applied mathematics, and biology. In 1992, he founded the Gelfand Outreach Program, which fosters mathematical excellence in high school students.
BIOGRAPHY
Gelfand is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mathematics and a member at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was a professor at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1935-41) and at the Moscow State University (1941-90). He taught at Harvard University (1989-90) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990).
Gelfand received a Ph.D. (1935) and a D.Sc. (1940) from the Moscow State University.