- Mark Grigoryevich Krein
Mark Grigorievich Krein ( _ru. Марк Григорьевич Крейн;
3 April 1907 –17 October 1989 ) was a Soviet Jewish mathematician, one of the major figures of theSoviet school offunctional analysis . He is known for works inoperator theory (in close connection with concrete problems coming frommathematical physics ), the problem of moments,classical analysis andrepresentation theory .He was born in
Kiev , leaving home at age 17 to go toOdessa . He had a difficult academic career, not completing his first degree and constantly being troubled byanti-Semitic discrimination. His supervisor wasNikolai Chebotaryov .He was awarded the
Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1982 (jointly withHassler Whitney ),but was not allowed to attend the ceremony.David Milman ,Mark Naimark ,Izrail Glazman and other known mathematicians were his students.He died in Odessa.
14 january 2008 , the memorial plaque of Mark Krein was unveiled on the main administration building ofI.I. Mechnikov Odessa National University ee also
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Tannaka-Krein duality
*Krein-Milman theorem infunctional analysis
*Krein space
*Krein's condition for the indeterminacy of the problem of momentsExternal links
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* [http://maa2007.onu.edu.ua/ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Modern Analysis and Applications (MAA 2007). Dedicated to the centenary of Mark Krein]
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