After moving to the University of Chicago, he stopped playing for two decades, but then returned to music as an accompanist for student-run Gilbert and Sullivan productions and as a calliope player in football game parades.
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He studied piano until the age of 15, earned money in high school as a dance band musician, taught Tom Lehrer, and played in Harvard's jazz band in graduate school.
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One of those compositions, A Song About Pi, is a melody based on assigning notes to the first 14 decimal places of pi, and has occasionally been performed by his daughter, singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky.
The album is dedicated to the memories of the artist's father, Irving Kaplansky, and Red House Records founder, Bob Feldman.
Washington Irving | Irving Berlin | Henry Irving | Irving | Irving, Texas | John Irving | David Irving | Robert Irving III | Irving Plaza | Amy Irving | Irving Penn | Irving Fisher | Lucy Kaplansky | Irving Wallace | Irving Picard | Irving Mills | Irving Langmuir | Irving Klaw | Irving Thalberg | Irving Kane Pond | Irving Jacobson | Irving Allen | Irving T. Bush | Irving Stone | Irving Layton | Irving Hexham | Irving Babbitt | L. Irving Handy | J. D. Irving | Irving Oil |
See the books by Irving Kaplansky, László Fuchs, Phillip Griffith, and David Arnold, as well as the proceedings of the conferences on Abelian Group Theory published in Lecture Notes in Mathematics for more recent results.
Hilbert C*-modules were first introduced in the work of Irving Kaplansky in 1953, which developed the theory for commutative, unital algebras (though Kaplansky observed that the assumption of a unit element was not "vital").