Question: Who was born first, Mikhail Kravchuk or Israel Gelfand?
Sentence (from "Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction"): In functional analysis, a discipline within mathematics, given a C*-algebra "A", the Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction establishes a correspondence between cyclic *-representations of "A" and certain linear functionals on "A" (called "states").
Relevant evidence: No