nLab Bertram Kostant

Bertram Kostant (1928–2017) worked on group theory, representation theory, differential geometry and mathematical physics.

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Selected writings

On the Jacobson-Morozov theorem:

• Bertram Kostant, The principal three-dimensional subgroup and the Betti numbers of a complex simple Lie group, Amer. J. Math. 81 (1959) 973–1032 [jstor:2372999]

On the icosahedral group in the analysis of Fullerenes, and related parts of Galois's last letter:

• Bertram Kostant: The graph of the truncated icosahedron and the last letter of Galois, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 2 9 (1995) 959–968 [pdf]

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