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Israel Gelfand

Soviet-American mathematician1913 to 2009

Wikidata names Andrey Kolmogorov as doctoral advisor, lists 29 doctoral students, names Andrey Kolmogorov as teacher, and lists 20 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Andrey Kolmogorov

Students on Wikidata29

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Vitalii Ditkin
born 1910
stated by Wikidata
Georgiy Shilov
born 1917
stated by Wikidata
Yakov Hurgin
born 1919
stated by Wikidata
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
born 1922
stated by Wikidata
Mikhail Tsetlin
born 1924
stated by Wikidata
Victor Lidskii
born 1924
stated by Wikidata
Alexander Abramov
born 1926
stated by Wikidata
Yuliy Schreider
born 1927
stated by Wikidata
Albert Molchanov
born 1928
stated by Wikidata
Emmanuil Shnol
born 1928
stated by Wikidata
Felix Berezin
born 1931
stated by Wikidata
Robert Minlos
born 1931
stated by Wikidata
Mikhail Fedoryuk
born 1934
stated by Wikidata
Alexandre Kirillov
born 1936
stated by Wikidata
Valentin Izrailevich Krinsky
born 1938
stated by Wikidata
Endre Szemerédi
born 1940
stated by Wikidata
Joseph Bernstein
born 1945
stated by Wikidata
Alexei Gvishiani
born 1948
stated by Wikidata
Vladimir Retakh
born 1948
stated by Wikidata
Andrei Zelevinsky
born 1953
stated by Wikidata
Boris Feigin
born 1953
stated by Wikidata
Tanya Khovanova
born 1959
stated by Wikidata
Alexander Goncharov
born 1960
stated by Wikidata
Juan Carlos Álvarez-Paiva
stated by Wikidata
Leonid Aleksandrovich Diky
stated by Wikidata
Maxim V. Zyskin
stated by Wikidata
Mikhail Smirnov
stated by Wikidata
Valentina Alekseevna Golubeva
stated by Wikidata
Vladimir Andreevich Borovikov

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Andrey Kolmogorov

Taught20

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Georgiy Shilov
born 1917
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Yakov Hurgin
born 1919
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
born 1922
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Eugene Dynkin
born 1924
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Mikhail Tsetlin
born 1924
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Victor Lidskii
born 1924
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexander Abramov
born 1926
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Yuliy Schreider
born 1927
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Albert Molchanov
born 1928
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Emmanuil Shnol
born 1928
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
born 1929
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Felix Berezin
born 1931
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexandre Kirillov
born 1936
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Endre Szemerédi
born 1940
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Joseph Bernstein
born 1945
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
David Kazhdan
born 1946
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexei Gvishiani
born 1948
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Vladimir Retakh
born 1948
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Andrei Zelevinsky
born 1953
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Maxim Kontsevich
born 1964

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataAndrey Kolmogorov
2 steps up
stated by WikidataNikolai Luzin
3 steps up
stated by WikidataDmitri Egorov
4 steps up
stated by WikidataNikolai Bugaev

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 527 people: 527 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

stated by Wikidata
Abstract functions and linear operators
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

1932 to 1938
Lomonosov Moscow State University
studied
1935 to 1941
Academy of Sciences of the USSR
worked
1941 to 1989
Lomonosov Moscow State University
worked
1989 to 1990
Harvard University
worked
1990 to 1990
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
worked
from 1990
Rutgers University
worked
undated
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
worked
undated
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, biologist, university teacher
fields: mathematical analysis, functional analysis, algebra, topology, theory of differential equations, probability theory, numerical analysis, mathematics, biology, pedagogy, group theory, representation theory
degrees: Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, 1940
awards: Stalin Prize, 1953, Order of the Badge of Honour, 1953, Order of Lenin, 1954, Lenin Prize, 1961, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1963, Order of Friendship of Peoples, 1975, doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, 1975, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 1978, Wigner Medal, 1980, Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, 1989, MacArthur Fellows Program, 1994, Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, 2005, honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, honorary doctor of Harvard University, State Prize of the Russian Federation, Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, 1951, Leroy P. Steele Prize, honorary doctorate of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, 1984
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1977, National Academy of Sciences, from 1970, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1953 to 1984, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, from 1984, French Academy of Sciences, from 1976, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from 1974, Japan Academy, from 1989, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1964, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1989, European Academy of Sciences, from 2004
notable works: Gelfand–Mazur theorem, Gelfand–Naimark theorem, Gelfand representation, Liouville–Bratu–Gelfand equation, Gelfand pair, Gelfand ring
Wikipedia: in 40 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere11

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaIsrael Gelfand
stated by WikidataWikidataQ315414
stated by WikidataVIAF49355156
stated by WikidataGND118831364
stated by WikidataIdRef060832967
stated by WikidataISNI000000008380926X

papers

OpenAlexA5103508949a checked match
OpenAlexA5108793140a checked match
stated by WikidataDBLP61/6697
stated by WikidataScopus7005158655

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project17512

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@misc{academicancestry_Q315414,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Israel Gelfand: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q315414},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Israel Gelfand: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q315414