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Marc Rieffel

Marc Rieffel
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Born Marc Rieffel
Fields C*-algebra
Quantum group
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater Columbia University
Doctoral advisor Richard Kadison
Doctoral students Ruy Exel
Philip Green
Jonathan Rosenberg

Marc Aristide Rieffel is a mathematician noted for his fundamental contributions to C*-algebra and quantum group theory. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University in 1963 under Richard Kadison with a dissertation entitled A Characterization of Commutative Group Algebras and Measure Algebras and is currently a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2012, he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.


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