
Gregg Jay Zuckerman (born 1949) is a
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
at
Yale University
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who discovered
Zuckerman functors and
translation functors, and with
Anthony W. Knapp
Anthony W. Knapp (born 2 December 1941, Morristown, New Jersey) is an American mathematician at the State University of New York, Stony Brook working on representation theory, who classified the tempered representations of a semisimple Lie grou ...
classified the irreducible
tempered representations of
semisimple Lie groups.
He received his
Ph.D. in mathematics from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...
in 1975 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Some character identities for semisimple Lie groups", under the supervision of
Elias M. Stein.
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External links
Yale page
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1949 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Princeton University alumni
Yale University faculty