Irving Kaplansky (March 22, 1917 – June 25, 2006) was a mathematician, college professor, author, and amateur musician. Kaplansky or "Kap" as his friends...

The mathematician Irving Kaplansky is notable for proposing numerous conjectures in several branches of mathematics, including a list of ten conjectures...

dimension of any function space. The theorem is named after Paul Erdős and Irving Kaplansky. Let E {\displaystyle E} be an infinite-dimensional vector space over...

guitar, mandolin, and piano. Kaplansky was originally from Chicago; her father was the noted mathematician Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006). Later, she would...

American radiation oncologist Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006), mathematician Irving Kaplan (chemist), an MIT professor Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), chemist...

In the theory of von Neumann algebras, the Kaplansky density theorem, due to Irving Kaplansky, is a fundamental approximation theorem. The importance and...

infinite-dimensional C*-algebras with this property exist was posed in 1958 by Irving Kaplansky, and the first example of one was published in 1981 by Bruce Blackadar...

basis for further investigations of algebraic quantum mechanics started by Irving Segal. Von Neumann was the first to establish a rigorous mathematical framework...

introduced in the work of Irving Kaplansky in 1953, which developed the theory for commutative, unital algebras (though Kaplansky observed that the assumption...

of complex numbers is probably the one best studied. In this case, Irving Kaplansky proved that if a and b are elements of C[G] with ab = 1, then ba =...