Igor Dmitrievich Ado, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIgor Dmitrievich Ado
Russian mathematician
Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1910
Place of Birth: Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1983
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Igor Dmitrievich Ado
- Igor Dmitrievich Ado (Russian: ????? ?????????? ???, scientific transliteration Igor' Dmitrievic Ado; January 17, 1910 in Kazan – June 30, 1983) was a Soviet mathematician.
- He was born into the family of a state employee and he lived in Kazan till the end of his life.
- After leaving school Igor Ado entered the faculty of mathematics and physics at Kazan State University, named after V.
- I.
- Lenin, from which he graduated successfully in 1931.
- He was admitted to the PhD study at the Chair of Mathematics (since 1934 – Chair of Algebra) under the supervision of Nikolai Chebotaryov.
- Igor Ado finished successfully his PhD study by preparing a scientific qualifying work for the degree of a Candidate (PhD) of physical and mathematical sciences.
- The University board awarded him for this work the degree of Doctor nauk (doctor of sciences) of physic-mathematical sciences.
- This is an analogue to the European Habilitation and is very unusual to receive for a PhD work.
- Igor Ado solved in his thesis a current problem of modern abstract algebra connected to representation theory of Lie algebras and Lie groups.
- More precisely, he obtained the result which is now known as Ado's Theorem: every finite-dimensional Lie algebra over a field of characteristic zero has a faithful finite-dimensional linear representation. After the defense of his doctoral thesis Igor Ado started to work at Kazan State University.
- From 1936 till 1942 he held the position of a professor at the Chair of Algebra.
- In 1942 Igor Ado moved to the Kazan State Chemical Technological Institute named after S.M.
- Kirov, now called Kazan National Research Technological University where he held the Chair of High Mathematics until his death.
- He held the position of a professor from 1942 to 1958 and from 1970 to 1983.
- During the period from 1958 to 1970 he was the head of the chair.
- Igor Ado has 12 publications.
- He did research in group theory and representation theory.
- His most famous publication is the paper The representation of Lie algebras by matrices.
- Ado's Theorem has attracted the attention of many famous mathematicians who tried to improve its proof.
- Kenkichi Iwasawa proved the theorem over a field of prime characteristic.
- For this reason Ado's Theorem is also called Ado-Iwasawa Theorem.
- Also many generalizations and refinements of Ado's Theorem have been considered.
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