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Bertram Kostant was born on 24 May, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American Jewish mathematician. Discover Bertram Kostant'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 88 years old?

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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 24 May, 1928
Birthday 24 May
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York
Date of death 2 February, 2017
Died Place Roslindale, Massachusetts
Nationality United States

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1928

Bertram Kostant (May 24, 1928 – February 2, 2017) was an American mathematician who worked in representation theory, differential geometry, and mathematical physics.

1945

Kostant grew up in New York City, where he graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1945.

1950

He went on to obtain an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Purdue University in 1950.

1954

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1954, under the direction of Irving Segal, where he wrote a dissertation on representations of Lie groups.

1959

Kostant was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1959-60 (in Paris), and a Sloan Fellow in 1961-63.

1962

In 1962 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1978 to the National Academy of Sciences.

1982

In 1982 he was a fellow of the Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies at Tel Aviv University.

1989

He received honorary degrees from the University of Córdoba in Argentina in 1989, the University of Salamanca in Spain in 1992, and Purdue University in 1997.

The latter, from his alma mater, was an honorary Doctor of Science degree, citing his fundamental contributions to mathematics and the inspiration he and his work provided to generations of researchers.

1990

In 1990 he was awarded the Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society, in recognition of his 1975 paper, “On the existence and irreducibility of certain series of representations.”

1993

After time at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he remained until his retirement in 1993.

Kostant's work has involved representation theory, Lie groups, Lie algebras, homogeneous spaces, differential geometry and mathematical physics, particularly symplectic geometry.

He has given several lectures on the Lie group E8.

He has been one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

His introduction of the theory of prequantization has led to the theory of quantum Toda lattices.

The Kostant partition function is named after him.

With Gerhard Hochschild and Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg, he is one of the namesakes of the Hochschild–Kostant–Rosenberg theorem which describes the Hochschild homology of some algebras.

His students include James Harris Simons, James Lepowsky, Moss Sweedler, David Vogan, and Birgit Speh.

At present he has more than 100 mathematical descendants.

2001

In 2001, Kostant was a Chern Lecturer and Chern Visiting Professor at Berkeley.

2008

In May 2008, the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences hosted a conference: “Lie Theory and Geometry: the Mathematical Legacy of Bertram Kostant,” at the University of British Columbia, celebrating the life and work of Kostant in his 80th year.

2012

In 2012, he was elected to the inaugural class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

In the last year of his life, Kostant traveled to Rio de Janeiro for the Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, where he received the prestigious Wigner Medal, “for his fundamental contributions to representation theory that led to new branches of mathematics and physics.”