Richard Vincent Kadison (July 25, 1925 – August 22, 2018)Foreign Members list.
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Accessed January 12, 2010 was an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras.

Work

Born in New York City in 1925, Kadison was a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.Richard Kadison wins 1999 AMS Steele Prize.
Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed January 12, 2010. Kadison was a member of the

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(elected in 1996), and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow. Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Personal

Kadison was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings, making the 1952 US Olympic Team but later withdrawing due to an injury. He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they had one son, Lars. Kadison died after a short illness on August 22, 2018.

Selected publications

Books

*with

John Ringrose John Robert Ringrose (born 21 December 1932) is an English mathematician working on operator algebras who introduced nest algebras. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977. In 1962, Ringrose won the Adams Prize. Works * with Rich ...

: ''Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras.'' 2 vols., Academic Press 1983; new edition
''Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras: Elementary theory'', Vol. 1, 1997
AMS 1997 *with John Ringrose: ''Fundamentals of the theory of operator algebras, III-IV. An exercise approach'', Birkhäuser, Basel, III: 1991, xiv+273 pp., ; IV: 1992, xiv+586 pp., ''Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras''. Volume IV, AMS website
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''PNAS'' articles

* *with I. M. Singer: *with Bent Fuglede: *with Zhe Liu: * * * * * *with Bent Fuglede:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kadison, Richard 1925 births 2018 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences University of Chicago alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Fellows of the American Mathematical Society The Bronx High School of Science alumni People from New York City