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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. [edit] Kostant grew up in New York City, where he graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1945. [2] .
Feb 25, 2017 · MIT has a story about him here. 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.
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Feb 16, 2017 · Bertram Kostant, professor emeritus of mathematics at MIT, died at the Hebrew Senior Rehabilitation Center in Roslindale, Massachusetts, on Thursday, Feb. 2, at the age of 88. 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 ...
Kostant was a devoted husband to Ann, his wife of 49 years. Ann Kostant has been a force in mathematical publishing through her work for Springer. He and Ann were the parents of five children: Abbe Kostant Smerling, Steven Kostant, Elizabeth Loew, David Amiel, and Shoshanna Kostant. They also had nine grandchildren and two great grand-children.
Aug 5, 2023 · Here’s one published recollection – an interview with the distinguished MIT mathematician, Bertram Kostant who was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton between 1953 and 1955, the years when intellectual giants like Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hermann Weyl were there.
Bertram Kostant (May 24, 1928 – February 2, 2017) was an American mathematician. He was known for his works in Kostant partition function and Kostant–Parthasarathy–Ranga Rao–Varadarajan determinants. In 2016, he won the Wigner Medal.
Feb 2, 2017 · Bertram Kostant. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biographical Memoir PDF. Birth / Deceased Date. May 24, 1928 - February 2, 2017. Biographical Memoir Available ...
