Irving Segal

Irving Segal
Irving Segal
	Segal in Nice, 1970
Born	September 13, 1918; The Bronx, New York, US
Died	August 30, 1998 (aged 79); Lexington, Massachusetts, US
Alma mater	Princeton University; Yale University;
Known for	Segal–Bargmann space; Segal–Shale–Weil representation; Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction; Oscillator representation
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics; cosmology;
Institutions	University of Chicago; Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Doctoral advisor	Einar Hille
Doctoral students	John C. Baez; Robert J. Blattner; Lester Dubins; Henry Dye; Abel Klein; Bertram Kostant; Ray Kunze; Ernest Michael; Edward Nelson; David Shale; Isadore Singer; W. Forrest Stinespring; Walter A. Strauss; Robert R. Kallman

Irving Ezra Segal (1918–1998) was an American mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics. He shares credit for what is often referred to as the Segal–Shale–Weil representation. Early in his career Segal became known for his developments in quantum field theory and in functional and harmonic analysis, in particular his innovation of the algebraic axioms known as C*-algebra.

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