Robert Moody

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Robert V. Moody (left) in Oberwolfach (2007)

Robert Vaughan Moody (born November 28, 1941 ) is a Canadian mathematician.

Life

Moody was born in the UK. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1962, and at the University of Toronto , where he made his master's degree in mathematics in 1964 and in 1966 with Maria Wonenburger with the dissertation Lie algebras associated to generalized Cartan Matrices was PhD. In the same year he became an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan, an associate professor in 1970 and a professor in 1976. In 1989 he became a mathematics professor at the University of Alberta . There he is now (2007) Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria . He was u. a. Visiting professor at the University of Bonn , the University of Wuppertal , at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (University of Paris VI) and at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay .

With Victor Kac, Moody is the discoverer of the Kac-Moody algebras , an infinite-dimensional generalization of Lie algebras , which is widely used in modern physics ( string theory ). He also dealt with the constructive calculation of the representation of Lie groups and algebras (partly with Jiří Patera ) and is also interested in quasicrystals , mathematics in art and photography.

In 1999 he became Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1980 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . In 1996 he and Kac received the Wigner Medal . He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Montreal and Bielefeld University (2015).

Fonts

  • Baake, Grimm, Moody: The Hidden Order of Quasicrystals , Spectrum, February 2002
  • Kass, Moody, Patera, Slansky: Affine Lie Algebras, weight multiplicities and branching rules , 2 volumes, University of California Press 1991
  • Moody, Bremner, Patera: Tables of weight space multiplicities , Marcel Dekker 1983
  • Moody, Patera Fast recursion formula for weight multiplicities , Bulletin AMS, 7, 1982, 237-242, online
  • Moody, Pianzola: Lie algebras with triangular decompositions , Canadian Mathematical Society Series, John Wiley 1995

literature

  • Stephen Berman, Karen Parshall : Victor Kac and Robert Moody - their paths to Kac-Moody-Algebras , Mathematical Intelligencer, 2002, No. 1

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 73, 1967, p. 217.
  2. ^ Moody: A new class of Lie algebras , Journal of Algebra Vol. 10, 1968, pp. 211-230
personal data
SURNAME Moody, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moody, Robert Vaughan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1941