Mark Naimark
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Mark Aronovich Naimark (Russian: Марк Ароно́вич Наймарк) (5 December 1909 – 30 December 1978) was a Soviet mathematician.
He was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (today's Ukraine) into a Jewish family and died in Moscow, USSR. He received his PhD in 1943 from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics; his doctoral advisor was Mark Krein. In 1962 he became professor in the Department of the Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis at the Steklov Mathematical Institute.
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Work
Contributions that Naimark is known for include
- the Gelfand–Naimark theorem on the reprentation of C*-algebras by bounded operators,
- the Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction establishing a correspondence between cyclic *-representations and linear functionals, and
- the representation theory of the complex classical Lie groups.
Publications
- Unitary representations of the classical group (with I. M. Gelfand, 1950)
- Linear Differential operators, 1954
- Normed Rings, 1956
- Linear Representations of the Lorentz Group, 1958
- Theory of Group Representations, 1974
(all the above books were written in Russian)
See also
External links
- Mark Naimark at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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