Functional Analysis on the Eve of the 21st Century
Subtitle: In Honor of the Eightieth Birthday of I. M. Gelfand, Vol. 2 (Progress in Mathematics, PM132)
Contributors: Simon Gindikin (Editor); James Lepowsky (Editor); Robert Wilson (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: December 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780817638559
Subjects: Functional Analysis; Geometry; Mathematics for scientists & engineers; Topology; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Calculus; History; Mathematical Analysis; Gelfand; Geometric Quantum Field Theory; Mathematics / Calculus; Mathematics / Mathematical Analysis; Mathematics-Mathematical Analysis; Representation Theory; Science-History
First sentence: Our journey starts with a macroscopic view of Riemannian manifolds with positive scalar curvature and terminates with a glimpse of the proof of the homotopy invariance of some Novikov higher signatures of non-simply connected manifolds.