Bruce Blackadar

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bruce Evan Blackadar (born October 22, 1948 in Nyack , New York ) is an American mathematician who deals with operator algebras and group theory.

Blackadar studied at Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and received his doctorate in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley , with Calvin Moore ( Factor Representations of Restricted Direct Product Groups ). From 1975 he was an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno , where he received a full professorship in 1983. He has held visiting professorships in France, Germany (Heidelberg), Australia, Denmark and Canada.

In addition to operator theory, he deals with induced representations of locally compact groups and representations of products and extensions of groups.

Fonts

  • Operator algebras: theory of C * -algebras and von Neumann algebras, Springer Verlag 2006
  • K-Theory of Operator Algebras, Springer Verlag 1986, 2nd edition Cambridge University Press 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Blackadar, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blackadar, Bruce Evan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyack , New York