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Victor Kac

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Russian mathematician

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Victor Kac
Mathematics
#79
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#221
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#30
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Algebra
#6
World Rank
#12
Historical Rank
#3
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Measure Theory
#237
World Rank
#369
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#107
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According to Wikipedia, Victor Gershevich Kac is a Soviet and American mathematician at MIT, known for his work in representation theory. He co-discovered Kac–Moody algebras, and used the Weyl–Kac character formula for them to reprove the Macdonald identities. He classified the finite-dimensional simple Lie superalgebras, and found the Kac determinant formula for the Virasoro algebra. He is also known for the Kac–Weisfeiler conjectures with Boris Weisfeiler.

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