
Mark G. Krein
Wolf Prize Laureate in Mathematics 1982

The Prize Committee for Mathematics has unanimously chosen the following two Wolf Prize winners to equally share the 1982 award: Mark G. Krein and Hassler Whitney
Mark G. Krein
Institute of Physical Chemistry of
Ukrainian S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
Odessa, U.S.S.R.
“for his fundamental contributions to functional analysis and its applications.”
The work of Mark Grigor’evich Krein is the culmination of the noble line of research began by Chebyshev, Stieltjes, S. Bernstein and Markov and continued by F. Riesz, Banach and Szego. Krein brought the full force of mathematical analysis to bear on problems of function theory, operator theory, probability and mathematical physics. His contributions led to important developments in the applications of mathematics to different fields ranging from theoretical mechanics to electrical engineering. His style in mathematics and his personal leadership and integrity have set standards of excellence.
