Israel Gelfand made significant contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and functional analysis.
13 Facts About Israel Gelfand
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Israel Gelfand's legacy continues through his students, who include Endre Szemeredi, Alexandre Kirillov, Edward Frenkel, Joseph Bernstein, David Kazhdan, as well as his own son, Sergei Gelfand.
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Israel Gelfand ran a seminar at Moscow State University from 1945 until May 1989, which covered a wide range of topics and was an important school for many mathematicians.
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Israel Gelfand worked extensively in mathematics education, particularly with correspondence education.
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Israel Gelfand was married to Zorya Shapiro, and their two sons, Sergei and Vladimir both live in the United States.
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Memories about I Gelfand are collected at a dedicated website handled by his family.
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Israel Gelfand became a vegetarian in 1994 and vegan in 2000.
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Israel Gelfand held several honorary degrees and was awarded the Order of Lenin three times for his research.
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Israel Gelfand won the Wolf Prize in 1978, Kyoto Prize in 1989 and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1994.
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Israel Gelfand held the presidency of the Moscow Mathematical Society between 1968 and 1970, and was elected a foreign member of the US National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Irish Academy, the American Mathematical Society and the London Mathematical Society.
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Israel Gelfand died at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital near his home in Highland Park, New Jersey.
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Israel Gelfand was less than five weeks past his 96th birthday.
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Israel Gelfand's death was first reported on the blog of his former collaborator Andrei Zelevinsky and confirmed a few hours later by an obituary in the Russian online newspaper Polit.