Education
Block earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1956.
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Richard Block
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He was the first to discover the central extension of the Witt algebra that gives the Virasoro algebra, though his discovery went unnoticed for many years. With R. L. Wilson he classified the simple Lie algebras over "well behaved" fields of finite characteristic. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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American Mathematical Society.
