Clay Mathematics Institute

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Gelfand Centennial Conference: a View of 21st Century Mathematics

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 to Monday, September 2, 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Organizers: Pavel Etingof (MIT), Simon Gindikin (Rutgers), David Kazhkan (HUJ), Barry Mazur (Harvard), Vladimir Retakh (Rutgers), Isadore Singer (MIT), Andrei Zelevinksy (Northeastern)

CMI Enhancement and Partnership Program

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This conference is dedicated to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Israel Moiseevich Gelfand (1913-2009), one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. Gelfand made fundamental contributions to many areas of mathematics, and created a large and prominent school. He always emphasized unity of mathematics, and stressed that a mathematician should study new mathematics all of their life.

Gelfand Centennial Conference: a View of 21st Century Mathematics

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