Fridrikh Israilevich Karpelevich (; 2 October 1927 – 5 July 2000) was a Russian mathematician known for his work on
semisimple Lie algebra
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s,
geometry
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, and
probability theory
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. Together with
Simon Gindikin
Simon Grigorevich Gindikin (; born 7 December 1937, Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a mathematician at Rutgers University
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, he discovered the
Gindikin–Karpelevich formula.
[The original paper is . See for a review.]
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Russian mathematicians
Algebraists
Probability theorists
Queueing theorists
1927 births
2000 deaths
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