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Oct 8, 2009 · Israel M. Gelfand, one of the giants of 20th-century mathematics, whose work cleared paths for other thinkers in fields as diverse as physics and medical imaging, died on Monday in New...
Professor Israel Gelfand, one of the most original and broadest mathe-maticians of our time, passed away on October 5, 2009. His intuition was legendary; his works created a number of major areas of mathematics, and had strong impact in many other areas. His influence on students, collab-
Oct 5, 2003 · Dr. Gelfand, a distinguished visiting professor of mathematics at Rutgers, and widely considered to be among the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, has demonstrated a voracious appetite...
In the Summer of 1988 or 1989 Gelfand lived with his daughter in a boarding house of the Academy of Sciences in Zvenigorod and we rented a summer house in Kratovo, not far from Zelevinsky, Feigin and Fuchs. The trip to see Gelfand was rather long: a train, a subway, then another train, then a bus.
The recipient of many awards, including the Order of Lenin and the first Wolf Prize, he was a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society and professor at Moscow State University and, after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday, at Rutgers University. Gelfand is also a 1994 MacArthur Fellow .
Jul 1, 1994 · Gelfand is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mathematics and a member at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was a professor at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1935-41) and at the Moscow State University (1941-90).
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Oct 11, 2009 · Israel Gelfand, the Russian mathematician whose research laid the mathematical framework for the imaging abilities of MRI and CT scanners and who did crucial work in a host of more esoteric...
