Richard Vincent Kadison (July 25, 1925 – August 22, 2018) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of

operator algebra In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, an operator algebra is an algebra of continuous linear operators on a topological vector space, with the multiplication given by the composition of mappings. The results obtained in the study o ...

Career

Born in New York City in 1925, Kadison was a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

.Richard Kadison wins 1999 AMS Steele Prize.
Department of Mathematics,

. Accessed January 12, 2010. Kadison was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996), and a foreign member of the

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(elected 1974) and of the

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. He was a 1969

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated d ...

. Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the

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. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Personal life

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

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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 The Adams Prize i ...

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Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras ''Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras'' is a four-volume textbook on the classical theory of operator algebras written by Richard Kadison and John Ringrose. The first two volumes, published in 1983 and 1986, are entitled (I) ''Elementar ...

'' 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

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Bent Fuglede Bent Fuglede (8 October 1925 – 7 December 2023) was a Danish mathematician. Early life and career Fuglede was known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, in particular functional analysis, where he proved Fuglede's theorem and sta ...

: *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 Mathematicians from New York City