Background
Kirillov, Alexandre was born on May 9, 1936 in Moscow. Son of Alexander Kirillov and Anna Smirnova. came to the United States, 1994.
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Alexandre Kirillov
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Kirillov studied at Moscow State University where he was a student of Israel Gelfand. His Doctor of Philosophy (kandidat) dissertation Unitary representations of nilpotent Lie groups was published in 1962. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science.
At the time he was the youngest Doctor of Science in the Soviet Union.
Career
In particular he introduced the orbit method into representation theory. He worked at the Moscow State University until 1994 when he became the Francis J. Carey Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. Kirillov is an author of many popular school-oriented books and articles
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Kirillov"s son, Alexander Kirillov, Junior., is also a mathematician, working on the representation theory of Lie groups at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Achievements
Membership
American Mathematical Society.
Connections
Married Louiza Churaeva, September 10, 1960. Children: Julia, Alexander.
