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Victor Kac
Russian-American mathematician (1943-) · United States · On the map · Academics
Victor Gershevich (Grigorievich) Kac is a Soviet and American mathematician at MIT, known for his work in representation theory. He co-discovered Kac-Moody algebras, and used the Weyl-Kac character formula for them to reprove the Macdonald identities.
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He classified the finite-dimensional simple Lie superalgebras, and found the Kac determinant formula for the Virasoro algebra. He is also known for the Kac-Weisfeiler conjectures with Boris Weisfeiler.
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Haïm BrezisBoth received Steele Prize for Lifetime AchievementBruno ZuminoBoth received Wigner Medal
Richard P. StanleyBoth received Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
Bertram KostantBoth received Wigner Medal
Phillip GriffithsBoth received Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
Julius WessBoth received Wigner Medal