Victor Kac and Robert Moody: their paths to Kac-Moody Lie algebras.

DOI10.1007/BF03025312zbMath1048.17001MaRDI QIDQ697113

Karen Hunger Parshall, Stephen Berman

Publication date: 16 September 2002

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of nonassociative rings and algebras (17-03)

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