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| was | Mathematician | |
| Work field | Mathematics | |
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| Birth | 2 October 1927 | |
| Death | 5 July 2000 (aged 72 years) |
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Fridrikh Israilevich Karpelevich (Russian: Фридрих Израилевич Карпелевич; 2 October 1927 – 5 July 2000) was a Russian mathematician known for his work on semisimple Lie algebras, geometry, and probability theory. Together with Simon Gindikin, he discovered the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula.