Alexander Kirillov | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Russian |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Known for | Kirillov character formula Kirillov orbit theory Kirillov model |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Moscow State University |
Thesis | Unitary representations of nilpotent Lie groups (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Israel Gelfand |
Doctoral students | Alexei Borodin Victor Ginzburg David Kazhdan Alexander Molev Andrei Okounkov Andrei Zelevinsky |
Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirilloff (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Кири́ллов, born 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician,[1] known for his works in the fields of representation theory, topological groups and Lie groups. In particular he introduced the orbit method[2] into representation theory. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania.