Richard Kadison

Richard Victor 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. He was born in New York City. Kadison was known for his works to the study of operator algebras. Kadison was a member of the National Academy of Sciences from 1996 until his death in 2018.Kadison, Richard V., U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Accessed January 12, 2010. Election citation: "Kadison has been the principal figure in the American school of study of operator algebras in Hilbert space since the Second World War and one of the central leaders of the world development leading to applications in quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, noncommutative geometry, and knot theory."

Kadison died on August 22, 2018 in New York City from heart failure at the age of 93.Richard V. Kadison: 1925-2018

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