death_date nationality fields birth_date residence academic_advisors alma_mater death_place doctoral_students image citizenship name caption birth_place awards known_for workplaces article_title birth_name
17 october 1989 soviet union operator theory mathematical physics 3 april 1907 russian empire soviet union nikolai chebotaryov i.i. mechnikov odessa national university odessa , ukrainian ssr , soviet union vadym gohberg david milman mark naimark adamyan damir arov yurij berezansky izrail glazman israel krein memorial plaque for wiki 2008.jpg soviet union mark grigorievich krein the memorial plaque of mark krein kiev , russian empire wolf prize -lrb- 1982 -rrb- krein space functional analysis krein 's condition i.i. mechnikov odessa national university odessa construction institute mark krein
 mark grigorievich krein
mark krein

mark grigorievich krein -lrb- ; 3 april 1907 -- 17 october 1989 -rrb- was a soviet jewish mathematician , one of the major figures of the soviet school of functional analysis .
he is known for works in operator theory -lrb- in close connection with concrete problems coming from mathematical physics -rrb- , the problem of moments , classical analysis and representation theory .
he was born in kiev , leaving home at age 17 to go to odessa .
he had a difficult academic career , not completing his first degree and constantly being troubled by anti-semitic discrimination .
his supervisor was nikolai chebotaryov .
he was awarded the wolf prize in mathematics in 1982 -lrb- jointly with hassler whitney -rrb- , but was not allowed to attend the ceremony .
david milman , mark naimark , izrail glazman , moshe livshits and other known mathematicians were his students .
he died in odessa .
14 january 2008 , the memorial plaque of mark krein was unveiled on the main administration building of i.i. mechnikov odessa national university
