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Functional Analysis on the Eve of the 21st Century: Volume I In Honor of the Eightieth Birthday of I.M. Gelfand

By Simon Gindikin , James Lepowsky , Kazuhiko Aomoto (auth.) , Robert L. Wilson (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser Basel
Year
1995
ISBN
978-1-4612-8713-1, 978-1-4612-4262-8
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-4262-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22912530 bytes)
Series
Progress in Mathematics 131
Edition
1
Pages
296\310
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Functional Analysis

Description

These two volumes contain eighteen invited papers by distinguished mathematicians in honor of the eightieth birthday of Israel M. Gelfand, one of the most remarkable mathematicians of our time. 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 shape our understanding of the term 'functional analysis'. The papers in these volumes largely concern areas in which Gelfand has a very strong interest today, including geometric quantum field theory, representation theory, combinatorial structures underlying various 'continuous' constructions, quantum groups and geometry. The second of the two volumes contains the somewhat more 'geometric' papers, although such a designation is to a certain extent arbitrary, because of the breadth of the papers.

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