| 词条 | Irving Segal |
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| name = Irving Segal | image = Irving Segal.jpeg | image_size = | caption = Irving Segal in Nice, 1970 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|09|13|mf=y}} | birth_place = The Bronx, New York | death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|12|24|1918|09|13|mf=y}} | death_place = Lexington, Massachusetts | nationality = American | fields = Mathematics, Cosmology | workplaces = MIT University of Chicago | alma_mater = Yale University | doctoral_advisor = Einar Hille | doctoral_students = John C. Baez Robert J. Blattner Lester Dubins Henry Dye Abel Klein Bertram Kostant Ray Kunze Ernest Michael J. Edward Nelson Isadore Singer | known_for = | awards = }}Irving Ezra Segal (September 13, 1918 – August 30, 1998) was an American mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics. He shares credit for what is often referred to as the Segal–Shale–Weil representation.[1][2][3][4] Early in his career Segal became known for his developments in quantum field theory and in functional and harmonic analysis, in particular his innovation of the algebraic axioms known as C*-algebra. BiographyIrving Ezra Segal was born in the Bronx in 1918 to Jewish parents.[5] He attended school in Trenton. In 1934 was admitted to Princeton University at the age of 16. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, completed his undergraduate studies in just three years time, graduated with highest honors with a Bachelors in 1937, and was awarded the George B. Covington Prize in Mathematics. He was then admitted to Yale, and in another three years time had completed his doctorate, receiving his PhD in 1940. Segal taught at Harvard University, then he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, working from 1941–43 with Albert Einstein and John von Neumann. During World War II Segal served in the U.S. Army conducting research in ballistics at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. He joined the mathematics department at the University of Chicago in 1948 where he served until 1960. In 1960 he joined the mathematics department at M.I.T. where he remained as a professor until his death in 1998. He won three Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1947, 1951 and 1967, and received the Humboldt Award in 1981. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1966 in Moscow and in 1970 in Nice. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. Segal died in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1998. Edward Nelson's obituary article about Segal concludes: "...It is rare for a mathematician to produce a life work that at the time can be fully and confidently evaluated by no one, but the full impact of the work of Irving Ezra Segal will become known only to future generations.[6]" Selected publications
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Notes1. ^{{citation | last1=Segal|first1=I.E|title=Lectures at the 1960 Boulder Summer Seminar|year=1962}} 2. ^{{cite journal |first=D. |last=Shale |title=Linear symmetries of free boson fields |journal=Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. |volume=103 |year=1962 |pages=149–167 |doi=10.1090/s0002-9947-1962-0137504-6}} 3. ^{{cite journal |first=A. |last=Weil |title=Sur certains groupes d’opérateurs unitaires |journal=Acta Math. |volume=111 |year=1964 |pages=143–211 |doi=10.1007/BF02391012}} 4. ^{{cite journal | last1=Kashiwara |first1=M |last2=Vergne|first2=M. | title = On the Segal–Shale–Weil representation and harmonic polynomials| journal=Inventiones Mathematicae |volume=44 |year=1978 |pages=1–47|doi=10.1007/BF01389900}} 5. ^{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= |authorlink= | title= Irving Ezra Segal – Biography| date= | publisher= | url = http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Segal.html| work = | pages = | accessdate = May 20, 2013| language = }} 6. ^Obituary in Americal Mathematical Society Notices 7. ^{{cite journal|title=Review of Mathematical cosmology and extragalactic astronomy by Irving Ezra Segal|author=Taub, A. H.|authorlink=Abraham H. Taub|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|volume=83|year=1977|pages=705–711|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1977-14356-5}} 8. ^{{cite journal|title=Review of Introduction to Algebraic and Constructive Quantum Field Theory by J. C. Baez, I. E. Segal, and Z. Zhou|journal=Physics Today|author=Kon, Mark A.|volume=46|year=1993|page=43|url=http://math.bu.edu/people/mkon/nntry3.pdf|doi=10.1063/1.2809125}} References
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