Ola Bratteli Explained

Ola Bratteli
Birth Date:	24 October 1946
Birth Place:	Oslo, Norway
Death Place:	Oslo, Norway
Nationality:	Norwegian
Occupation:	Mathematician
Parents:	Trygve Bratteli (father) Randi Bratteli (mother)

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

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Ola Bratteli. Store norske leksikon. Norwegian. 29 October 2009.
2. Web site: Gruppe 1: Matematiske fag. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Norwegian. 28 October 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927170150/http://www.dnva.no/c26848/artikkel/vis.html?tid=27624. 27 September 2011. dead.
3. Sakai, Shōichirō. Shoichiro Sakai. Review: Operator algebras and quantum statistical mechanics by Ola Bratelli and Derek W. Robinson. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1982. 7. 425–427. 10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15056-X. free.