Victor Kac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Victor Kac

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1943

Place of Birth: Buguruslan, Orenburg Oblast, Russia

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Victor Gershevich (Grigorievich) Kac (Russian: ?????? ???????? (???????????) ???; born 19 December 1943 in Buguruslan, Russia, USSR) is a Soviet and American mathematician at MIT, known for his work in representation theory.
He co-discovered Kac–Moody algebras, and used the Weyl–Kac character formula for them to reprove the Macdonald identities.
He classified the finite-dimensional simple Lie superalgebras, and found the Kac determinant formula for the Virasoro algebra.
He is also known for the Kac–Weisfeiler conjectures with Boris Weisfeiler.