Mariusz Wodzicki (Polish: ; born 1956) is a Polish

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and professor of mathematics at the

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, whose works primarily focus on

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, algebraic

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noncommutative geometry Noncommutative geometry (NCG) is a branch of mathematics concerned with a geometric approach to noncommutative algebras, and with the construction of ''spaces'' that are locally presented by noncommutative algebras of functions, possibly in some g ...

, and

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Life and career

Wodzicki was born in

Bytom Bytom (Polish pronunciation: ; Silesian language, Silesian: ''Bytōm, Bytōń'', ) is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. Located in the Silesian Voivodeship, the city is 7 km northwest of Katowice, the regional capital. It is one ...

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in 1956. He received a MSc from

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

in 1980, and he completed his doctoral degree in 1984 at the

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under the advisement of

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(Spectral Asymmetry and Zeta-Functions). In 1985–1986 he was a research assistant at the

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford The Mathematical Institute is the mathematics department at the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the nine departments of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. The institute includes both pure and app ...

, after which he became an assistant professor at the Mathematical Institute of the

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. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the

. In 1992, Wodzicki was an invited speaker of the European Congress of Mathematics in

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(Algebraic K-theory and functional analysis). In 1994, he was an invited speaker of the

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(The algebra of functional analysis).Not printed in the proceedings

Selection of writings

* *''Vestigia investiganda''. Moscow Mathematical Journal, vol 2, 2002, pp. 769–798, 806. *with Ken Dykema, Gary Weiss: ''Unitarily invariant trace extensions beyond the trace class''. In: ''Complex analysis and related topics'' (Cuernavaca, 1996) Oper. Theory Adv. Appl. vol. 114, 2000, pp. 59–65 *''Algebraic K-theory and functional analysis'', ECM Paris 1992, Birkhäuser, Progress in Mathematics, 1994 * *

References

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Life and career

Selection of writings

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