Mathematical Sciences(including Pure Mathematics)

Izrail Moiseevich Gelfand

U.S.S.R. / September 2, 1913 - 2009
Mathematician; Professor, Moscow University

One of the highest authorities in modern mathematical sciences. Through his pioneering and monumental work in mathematical sciences, especially in functional analysis-which has experienced tremendous development this century and not only affected other areas of mathematics but has also provided indispensable mathematical tools for the physics of elementary particles and quantum mechanics-he has brought up and inspired many prominent mathematicians in the course of his creative career. He has provided key ideas and deep insights to the whole of mathematical sciences and made outstanding contributions to the advancement of the field.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

1913	Born in Krusnye Okny, Odessa U.S.S.R.
1932	Research student under Prof. A. N. Kolmogorov, Moscow University
1935	Associate Professor, Moscow University
1938	Ph.D., Moscow University
1943-present	Professor, Moscow University
1968-1970	President, Moscow Mathematical Society

AWARDS AND HONORS

1963	Labour of the Red Banner (2 orders)
1973	Lenin Award (3 orders)
1978	International Wolf Prize (Mathematics)
	Fellow of: Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Swedish Royal Academy of Science, Royal Irish Academy, Royal Society (London), Institute of France, Japan Academy
Honorary Doctorates:	Universities of Oxford, Harvard, Paris, Uppsala, Pisa, and Kyoto

MAJOR WORKS

1938	Abstract Functions and Linear Operators
1941	On Normed Rings
1943	Irreducible Unitary Representations of Locally Compact Groups (With D. A. Rajkov)
1958-1966	Generalized Functions 1-6 (With G. E. Shilov and others)
1987-1989	Izrail M. Gelfand Collected Papers, Three Volumes.

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