About Gregg Zuckerman
Born 1949. Gregg Zuckerman is an American mathematician and university teacher.
From left: Gregg Zuckerman, David J. Saltman, Robert Fefferman, Yale 1979 Gregg Jay Zuckerman (born 1949) is a mathematician and professor at Yale University working in representation theory. He discovered Zuckerman functors and translation functors, and with Anthony W. Knapp classified the irreducible tempered representations of semisimple Lie groups.
Education He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1975 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Some character identities for semisimple Lie groups", under the supervision of Elias M. Stein.
Research
In the late 1970s, Zuckerman and Jens Carsten Jantzen independently introduced translation functors. In 1978, he introduced the Zuckerman functor.
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Gregg Zuckerman was born in 1949 in Los Angeles.
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