Dan Voiculescu (mathematician)
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Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (b. June 14, 1949 in Bucharest, Romania) is a mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who works on von Neumann algebras and founded free probability.
He studied at the University of Bucharest, receiving his PhD in 1977 under the direction of Ciprian Foiaş. He came to Berkeley in 1986 for the International Congress of Mathematicians, and stayed on as visiting professor. He was appointed professor at Berkeley in 1987.
He received the 2004 NAS Award in Mathematics from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for “the theory of free probability, in particular, using random matrices and a new concept of entropy to solve several hitherto intractable problems in von Neumann algebras.”
[edit] Reference
- Allyn Jackson, Voiculescu Receives NAS Award in Mathematics, Notices of the AMS, May 2004, p. 547.
[edit] External links
- Dan Voiculescu (mathematician) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Berkeley page
- Notes on Free probability aspects of random matrices
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