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FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS ON THE EVE OF THE 21ST CENTURY
IN HONOR OF THE 80TH BIRTHDAY OF I.M. GELFAND |
| Volume: |
Volume 1 |
| By: |
Simon Gindikin, James Lepowsky, Sir Robert Wilson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£193.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0817638601 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780817638603 |
| Publisher: |
BIRKHAUSER BOSTON INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1995 |
| Edition: |
2 Hardbacks |
| Series: |
Progress in Mathematics 131/132 |
| Pages: |
670 |
| Description: |
These two volumes contain 18 invited papers in honour of the 80th birthday of mathematician Israel M. Gelfand, and cover such topics as geometric quantum field theory, representation theory, combinatorial structures underlying various "continuous" constructions, quantum groups and geometry. |
| Synopsis: |
A four-day conference, "Functional Analysis on the Eve of the Twenty- First Century," was held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from October 24 to 27, 1993, in honor of the eightieth birthday of Professor Israel Moiseyevich Gelfand. He was born in Krasnye Okna, near Odessa, on September 2, 1913. Israel Gelfand has played a crucial role in the development of functional analysis during the last half-century. His work and his philosophy have in fact helped to shape our understanding of the term "functional analysis" itself, as has the celebrated journal Functional Analysis and Its Applications, which he edited for many years. Functional analysis appeared at the beginning of the century in the classic papers of Hilbert on integral operators. Its crucial aspect was the geometric interpretation of families of functions as infinite-dimensional spaces, and of op- erators (particularly differential and integral operators) as infinite-dimensional analogues of matrices, directly leading to the geometrization of spectral theory.This view of functional analysis as infinite-dimensional geometry organically included many facets of nineteenth-century classical analysis, such as power series, Fourier series and integrals, and other integral transforms. |
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2 |
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biography |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Birkhauser Boston Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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