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Robert T. Powers

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Robert T. Powers is an American mathematician.

Powers earned his doctorate from Princeton University and taught at the University of Pennsylvania.[1][2] In 2012, he was elected an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3][4] His most famous paper is called "On Constructing Non -*Isomorphic Hyperfinite Factors of Type III" [5]

References

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  1. ^ "Robert T. Powers". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  2. ^ Robert T. Powers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "Honors & Other Things". University of Pennsylvania Almannac. Vol. 59, no. 16. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  4. ^ Lerner, Evan (7 November 2012). "Sixteen Penn Faculty Named to Initial Class of AMS Fellows". Penn Today. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  5. ^ Krieger, Wolfgang (1970). "On constructing non-∗isomorphic hyperfinite factors of type III". Journal of Functional Analysis. 6: 97–109. doi:10.1016/0022-1236(70)90049-2.