Irving Kaplansky (March 22, 1917 – June 25, 2006) was a mathematician, college professor, author, and amateur musician. Kaplansky or "Kap" as his friends...
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The mathematician Irving Kaplansky is notable for proposing numerous conjectures in several branches of mathematics, including a list of ten conjectures...
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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...
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guitar, mandolin, and piano. Kaplansky was originally from Chicago; her father was the noted mathematician Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006). Later, she would...
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American radiation oncologist Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006), mathematician Irving Kaplan (chemist), an MIT professor Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), chemist...
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In the theory of von Neumann algebras, the Kaplansky density theorem, due to Irving Kaplansky, is a fundamental approximation theorem. The importance and...
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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...
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basis for further investigations of algebraic quantum mechanics started by Irving Segal. Von Neumann was the first to establish a rigorous mathematical framework...
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introduced in the work of Irving Kaplansky in 1953, which developed the theory for commutative, unital algebras (though Kaplansky observed that the assumption...
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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 =...
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