Alexandre Kirillov
Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirilloff (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Кири́ллов, born 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, known for his works in the fields of representation theory, topological groups and Lie groups. In particular he introduced the orbit method into representation theory. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alexander Kirillov | |
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| Born | May 9, 1936 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Kirillov character formula Kirillov orbit theory Kirillov model |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Moscow State University |
| Thesis | Unitary representations of nilpotent Lie groups (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Israel Gelfand |
| Doctoral students | Alexei Borodin Victor Ginzburg David Kazhdan Alexander Molev Andrei Okounkov Andrei Zelevinsky |
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