Robert James Blattner
Robert James Blattner (born August 6, 1931 in Milwaukee - † June 13, 2015 ) was an American mathematician.
Blattner studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and received his doctorate in 1957 from the University of Chicago under Irving Segal (Group Representations and Operator Rings). As a post-doctoral student , he was an instructor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was a professor at UCLA (except from 1973 to 1975 as a professor at the University of Massachusetts). From 1981 to 1984 he was the mathematics faculty at UCLA. From 1993 he was Professor Emeritus.
He was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961/62 (and 1981) and at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1964/65 and was a visiting scholar at MSRI and the University of Warwick.
He dealt with representation theory of Lie groups (where Blattner's conjecture is named after him), harmonic analysis and geometric quantization.
He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ In Memoriam - Robert J. Blattner. UCLA College, accessed December 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Robert James Blattner in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ It was proven by Wilfried Schmid and Henryk Hecht in 1975 , Hecht, Schmid, A proof of Blattner's conjecture, Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 31, 1975, pp. 129–154
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Blattner, Robert James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 2015 |