Mark Iosifovich Graev
{{Short description|Russian mathematician (1922–2017)}}
Mark Iosifovich Graev (Марк Иосифович Граев, 21 November 1922, MoscowMark Iosifovich Graev on his 85th birthday, Russian Mathematical Surveys, Vol. 63, 2008, p. 173 – 22 April 2017{{cite web|url=https://pustoj-zhurnal.livejournal.com/109611.html|website=pustoj-zhurnal|title=Obituary (in Russian)}}) was a Russian mathematician. He is known as one of the namesakes in the Gelfand–Graev representation.
Education and career
Graev received his doctorate in 1947 from Lomonosov Moscow State University with thesis Free topological groups under the supervision of Alexander Kurosh.{{MathGenealogy|id=129907|title=Mark Iosifovich Graev}} Graev was a professor at the Scientific Research Institute of System Development of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He was a member of the Moscow circle of Israel Gelfand, with whom he wrote several books. Graev was the co-author with Gelfand and Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro of volume 5 (Integral Geometry and Representation Theory) and the co-author with Gelfand and Naum Ya. Vilenkin of volume 6 (Representation Theory and Automorphic Functions) in the 6-volume monograph series Generalized Functions.{{cite web|title=Generalized Functions|website=AMS Bookstore|url=https://bookstore.ams.org/chelgelfset/}} In 1966 Graev was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Moscow. His ICM presentation Theory of Representation of Groups was joint work with Alexander Kirillov.{{cite book|editor=Aizerman, M. A.|chapter=Theory of Group Representations by M. I. Graev and A. A. Kirillov|title=Thirty-one invited addresses at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow, 1966|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3xQpXJ_hmBMC&pg=PA50|pages=50–56|date=31 December 1968|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-9645-7}}
References
External links
- [http://www.mathnet.ru/php/person.phtml?option_lang=eng&personid=8939 Graev at mathnet.ru]
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Category:20th-century Russian mathematicians
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