Abraham Adrian Albert (November 9, 1905 – June 6, 1972) was an American mathematician.
[1] In 1939, he received the American Mathematical Society's Cole Prize in Algebra for his work on Riemann matrices.
He returned to Princeton for the opening year of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1933-34 and spent another year in Princeton in 1961-62 as the first Director of the Communications Research Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA).
After WWII, he became a forceful advocate favoring government support for research in mathematics on a par with physical sciences.
Albert was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968.