Mark Naimark

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Mark Aronovich Naimark (Russian: Марк Аронович Наймарк) (December 5, 1909-December 30, 1978) was a Soviet mathematician.

He was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (today's Ukraine) into a Jewish family and died in Moscow USSR. He received his PhD in 1943 from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics.

Contents 1 See also 2 Work 3 Publications 4 External links

[edit] See also

• Gelfand–Naimark theorem
• Gelfand-Naimark-Segal construction
• Naimark's problem

[edit] Work

He is known for e.g.

• the Gelfand–Naimark theorem;
• the Gelfand-Naimark-Segal construction
• the representation theory of the complex classical Lie groups;

[edit] Publications

• Unitary representations of the classical group (with I. M. Gelfand, 1950)
• Linear Differential operators, 1954
• Normed Rings, 1956
• Linear Representations of the Lorentz Group, 1958
• Theory of Group Representations, 1974

(all the above books were written in Russian)

[edit] External links

• Mark Naimark at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Mark Naimark”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive