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1. news.mit.edu › 2017 › bertram-kostant-professorBertram Kostant, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 88

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   Feb 16, 2017 · Bertram Kostant, professor emeritus of mathematics at MIT, died Feb. 2 at the age of 88. Kostant made key contributions to representation theory and Lie theory and was an influential mathematics educator and mentor.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bertram_KostantBertram Kostant - Wikipedia

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   Bertram Kostant (May 24, 1928 – February 2, 2017) [1] was an American mathematician who worked in representation theory, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. Early life and education. Kostant grew up in New York City, where he graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1945. [2] .

4. math.mit.edu › directory › profileBertram Kostant - MIT Mathematics

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   Feb 16, 2017 · Bertram Kostant Kostant was a professor of mathematics at MIT from 1962 until 1993, when he officially retired, but he continued his active life in research, traveling and lecturing at various universities and conferences around the world.

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   Jul 14, 2008 · Update: I hear that Bert Kostant has posted on his office door at MIT a copy of his e-mail exchange about E8 with the author of the New Yorker piece.

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   According to our current on-line database, Bertram Kostant has 21 students and 243 descendants. We welcome any additional information. If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form.

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   I was sorry to just hear via a comment here about the recent death of Bert Kostant, at the age of 88. MIT has a story about him here. Kostant was a major figure in the field of representation theory, …

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   Who is Bertram Kostant?

   • He held a deep passion for truth, for understanding, and for beauty; and an unshakeable faith that these things are woven together. Bertram Kostant was born on May 24, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Peter Stuyvesant High School in 1945.

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   Who is John Kostant and what did he do?

   • Kostant was a professor of mathematics at MIT from 1962 until 1993, when he officially retired, but he continued his active life in research, traveling and lecturing at various universities and conferences around the world.

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   What is Kostant known for?

   • Kostant's work has involved representation theory, Lie groups, Lie algebras, homogeneous spaces, differential geometry and mathematical physics, particularly symplectic geometry. He has given several lectures on the Lie group E8. He has been one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

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   When did John Kostant become a mathematician?

   • Kostant received an MS in mathematics in 1951, and under Irving Segal, his PhD in 1954, with a thesis titled, “Representations of a Lie algebra and its enveloping algebra on a Hilbert space.” Between 1953 and 1956 Kostant was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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9. www.math.columbia.edu › ~woit › wordpressBertram Kostant 1928-2017 | Not Even Wrong - Columbia University

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   Feb 25, 2017 · Kostant was a major figure in the field of representation theory, and perhaps the leading one during the second half of the twentieth century among those with a serious interest in the relations between representation theory and quantum theory.