Ola Bratteli

Norwegian mathematician

Ola Bratteli (24 October 1946 – 8 February 2015) was a Norwegian mathematician.

He was a son of Trygve Bratteli and Randi Bratteli (née Larssen). He received a PhD degree in 1974. He was appointed as professor at the University of Trondheim in 1980 and at the University of Oslo in 1991.^[1] He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[2]

Selected works

• with Derek W. Robinson: Operator Algebras and Quantum Statistical Mechanics (Springer-Verlag, 2 volumes, 1980)^[3]
• Derivations, Dissipations and Group Actions on C*-algebras (Springer-Verlag, 1986)
• with Palle T. Jørgensen: Wavelets through a looking glass, the world of the spectrum (Birkhäuser, 2002)

See also

• Approximately finite-dimensional C*-algebra
• Bratteli diagram
• Bratteli–Vershik diagram

References

1. "Ola Bratteli". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 29 October 2009.
2. "Gruppe 1: Matematiske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
3. Sakai, Shōichirō (1982). "Review: Operator algebras and quantum statistical mechanics by Ola Bratelli and Derek W. Robinson". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 7: 425–427. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15056-X.