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Irving Segal was born on 13 September, 1918 in The Bronx, New York, U.S., is an American mathematician. Discover Irving Segal's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 13 September 1918
Birthday 13 September
Birthplace The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Date of death 30 August, 1998
Died Place Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1917

He concedes at the outset that Segal's cosmology is "generally ignored by astrophysicists", and that the model was first proposed by Einstein in 1917 and is "supposedly discredited".

For a list of 227 articles and 10 books to which Segal contributed, see the MIT external link below.

1918

Irving Ezra Segal (1918–1998) was an American mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics.

He shares credit for what is often referred to as the Segal–Shale–Weil representation.

Early in his career Segal became known for his developments in quantum field theory and in functional and harmonic analysis, in particular his innovation of the algebraic axioms known as C*-algebra.

Irving Ezra Segal was born in the Bronx on September 13, 1918, to Jewish parents.

He attended school in Trenton.

1934

In 1934 he was admitted to Princeton University, at the age of 16.

1937

He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, completed his undergraduate studies in just three years time, graduated with highest honors with a bachelor's degree in 1937, and was awarded the George B. Covington Prize in Mathematics.

1940

He was then admitted to Yale, and in another three years time had completed his doctorate, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1940.

1941

Segal taught at Harvard University, then he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, working from 1941 to 1943 with Albert Einstein and John von Neumann.

During World War II Segal served in the US Army conducting research in ballistics at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.

1947

During his career he supervised 40 doctoral students — 15 at the University of Chicago and 25 at M.I.T. He won three Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1947, 1951 and 1967, and received the Humboldt Award in 1981.

1948

He joined the mathematics department at the University of Chicago in 1948 where he served until 1960.

1960

In 1960 he joined the mathematics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he remained as a professor until his death in 1998.

1966

He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1966 in Moscow and in 1970 in Nice.

1973

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

1983

In 1983 Victor Guillemin edited a festschrift dedicated to Irving Segal.

1992

Physics Today published a review of Introduction to Algebraic and Constructive Quantum Field Theory (1992), which Segal coauthored.

1998

Segal died in Lexington, Massachusetts, on August 30, 1998.

Edward Nelson's obituary article about Segal concludes: "... It is rare for a mathematician to produce a life work that at the time can be fully and confidently evaluated by no one, but the full impact of the work of Irving Ezra Segal will become known only to future generations."

Segal provided an alternative to the Big Bang theory of expansion of the universe.

The cosmological redshift that motivates the expanding universe theory is due to curvature of the cosmos, according to Segal.

Spacetime symmetry is expressed by the Lorentz group and its extension the Poincare group.

“The inclusion of the Einstein temporal evolution among the fundamental symmetries gives rise to the conformal group...” But conformal compactification introduces closed timelike curves so Segal portrayed the spatial part of the cosmos as a large 3-sphere with an auxiliary real line for time.

Spacetime cannot turn back on itself.

At each point in the cosmos there is a convex future direction, meaning, "the future can never merge into the past", no spacetime curvature can close or loop.

Segal reviewed redshift data to verify his cosmology.

He claimed confirmation, but generally his chronometric cosmology has not found favor.

For instance, Abraham H. Taub reviewed Mathematical Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy, saying

"The chronometric theory as described in this book is not a theory concerning the nature of the universe nor the behaviour of objects in it. Rather it ignores the effect of gravitational forces on these objects, postulates that astronomical bodies in it are at rest without explaining how this happens and ascribes the redshift to a particular description of methods of measurement which is at variance with that used in theories such as general relativity."

As for the cosmic microwave background, in the chronometric view, "The observed blackbody... is simply the most likely disposition of remnants of light on a purely random basis... and is not at all uniquely indicative of a Big Bang."

2005

In 2005 A. Daigneault spoke on "Irving Segal's Axiomatization of Spacetime and its Cosmological Consequences" in Budapest.

"The cosmological consequences of [Segal's] assumptions fly in the face of present day dogmas in cosmology: the universe is eternal; there is no such thing as the expansion of the universe and no such thing as a Big Bang; space is a hypersphere i.e. a three-dimensional sphere of fixed radius; the principle of energy conservation is reestablished; the redshift phenomenon is no Doppler effect but is an effect of the curvature of space ... (page 3)"