Alexandre Kirillov

Not to be confused with Alexander Kirillov, Jr..
Alexandre Kirillov
Born (1936-05-09) May 9, 1936
Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality Russian
Fields Mathematics
Alma mater Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor Israel Gelfand
Doctoral students Alexei Borodin
Victor Ginzburg
David Kazhdan
Alexander Molev
Andrei Okounkov
Known for Kirillov character formula
Kirillov orbit theory
Kirillov model

Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirillov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Кири́ллов, born 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician,[1] known for his works in the fields of representation theory, topological groups and Lie groups. In particular he introduced the orbit method[2] into representation theory.

Kirillov studied at Moscow State University where he was a student of Israel Gelfand. His Ph.D. (kandidat) dissertation Unitary representations of nilpotent Lie groups was published in 1962. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science. At the time he was the youngest Doctor of Science in the Soviet Union. He worked at the Moscow State University until 1994 when he became the Francis J. Carey Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania.

During his school years, Kirillov was a winner of many mathematics competitions, and he is still an active organizer of Russian mathematical contests. Kirillov is an author of many popular school-oriented books and articles.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

Kirillov's son, Alexander Kirillov, Jr., is also a mathematician, working on the representation theory of Lie groups at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Publications

References

  1. Marathe, Kishore (2010-08-18). Topics in Physical Mathematics. Springer. pp. 420–. ISBN 9781848829381. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  2. Huang, Jing-Song (1999). Lectures on Representation Theory. World Scientific. pp. 163–. ISBN 9789810237257. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
  4. Vogan Jr, David A. (2005). "Review: Lectures on the orbit method, by A. A. Kirillov". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 42 (4): 535–544. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-05-01065-7.

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