Vladimir Solomonovich Retakh (Russian: Ретах Владимир Соломонович; 20 May 1948) is a Russian-American mathematician who made important contributions to Noncommutative algebra and combinatorics among other areas.

Vladimir Retakh
Born(1948-05-20)May 20, 1948
Chișinău, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet Union
United States
Alma materMoscow State V. I. Lenin Pedagogical Institute
Known forQuasideterminant and Noncommutative symmetric function
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsRutgers University
Doctoral advisorsDmitrii Abramovich Raikov

Biography

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Retakh graduated in 1970 from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Beginning as an undergraduate Retakh regularly attended lectures and seminars at the Moscow State University most notably the Gelfand seminars.[1] He obtained his PhD in 1973 under the mentorship of Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov. He joined the Gelfand group in 1986.

His first position was at the central Research Institute for Engineering Buildings and later obtained his first academic position at the Council for Cybernetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1989. While at the Council for Cybernetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1990, Retakh had started working with Gelfand on their new program on Noncommutative determinants. Prior to immigrating to the US in 1993 he also held a position at the Scientific Research Institute of System Development

Research

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Retakh's other contributions include:

Recognition

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He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to noncommutative algebra and noncommutative algebraic geometry".[3]

References

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  1. ^ On Israel Moiseevich Gelfand
  2. ^ Monoidal Categories and the Gerstenhaber Bracket in Hochschild Cohomology by Reiner Hermann, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2016
  3. ^ 2019 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-11-07