Category:Irving Kaplansky

**Irving Kaplansky**
	Canadian mathematician
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Name in native language	Irving Kaplansky;
Date of birth	22 March 1917; Toronto; Isaac (Izidor) Kaplansky
Date of death	25 June 2006; Sherman Oaks
Place of burial	Beth Israel cemetery and Woodbridge Memorial Gardens (40°33′11.948″N 74°18′32.396″W);
Country of citizenship	Canada; United States of America;
Residence	Sherman Oaks (–2006); Toronto;
Educated at	University of Toronto (1934–1940); Harvard University (Doctor of Philosophy, mathematics, 1940–1941); Harbord Collegiate Institute (–1934);
Doctoral advisor	Saunders Mac Lane;
Doctoral student	Donald Samuel Ornstein; Hyman Bass; Judith D. Sally; Arlen Brown; Harold Widom; Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg; Wolmer Vasconcelos; Günter Lumer; Warren Douglas Nichols; Susanna S. Epp; Jacob Feldman; Adrian R. Wadsworth; Joseph J. Rotman; Fred B. Wright; Sterling K. Berberian; Jacob Matijevic; Stephen U. Chase; Edward Graham Evans, Jr.; Eben Matlis; Ed Posner; …;
Occupation	mathematician; university teacher;
Employer	University of Chicago (1945–1984); Harvard University (1941–1944); National Defense Research Committee (1944–1945);
Member of	National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Position held	director (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1984–1992); chairperson (American Mathematical Society, 1985–1986);
Field of work	algebra; group theory; mathematics; ring; functional analysis;
Child	Lucy Kaplansky;
Notable work	Erdős–Kaplansky theorem; Kaplansky density theorem; Kaplansky's theorem on quadratic forms; Kaplansky's theorem on projective modules; Kaplansky's conjectures; Q11837216; Kaplansky's game;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship (1948); Leroy P. Steele Prize (1989); Putnam Fellow (1938); Jeffery–Williams Prize (1968);
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	Q129368; ISNI: 0000000110323223; VIAF ID: 108934540; GND ID: 119264358; Library of Congress authority ID: n79056726; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11909416h; IdRef ID: 02694538X; NL CR AUT ID: jx20061125003; SELIBR ID: 394685; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 068408153; NORAF ID: 90264977; NUKAT ID: n01013458; NLP ID (old): a0000002444525; Libris-URI: mkz29rp518dbvpb; PLWABN ID: 9810538023105606; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007460676105171; SBN author ID: MILV013685; Open Library ID: OL142819A; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 833
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