Bertram Kostant
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Bertram Kostant (1928–2017) was an American mathematician and university teacher. Born in Brooklyn, he worked at Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley. His research focused on mathematics, representation theory, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. He was educated at Stuyvesant High School, Purdue University, and the University of Chicago, where he studied under Irving Segal.
Kostant received the Wigner Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Leroy P. Steele Prize. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Mathematical Society. His doctoral students included Jim Simons, James Lepowsky, and Arlie Petters. He died of a stroke in Roslindale in 2017.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bertram
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Roslindale
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Stuyvesant High School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Irving Segal
- Field of work
- mathematical physics
- Image
- Bertram Kostant.jpeg
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- date of birth
- 1928-01-01
- member of
- American Mathematical Society
- Commons category
- Bertram Kostant
- Erdős number
- 2
- date of death
- 2017-02-02
- name in native language
- Bertram Kostant
- cause of death
- stroke
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- manner of death
- natural causes
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