Functional Analysis on the Eve of the 21st Century
Subtitle: Volume I In Honor of the Eightieth Birthday of I.M. Gelfand
Publisher: Birkhäuser; Brand: Birkhäuser
Published: Oct 28, 2011
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781461287131
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.
Notes: Source title: Functional Analysis on the Eve of the 21st Century: Volume I In Honor of the Eightieth Birthday of I.M. Gelfand (Progress in Mathematics)