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Functional Analysis on the Eve of the 21st Century Volume II
In Honor of the Eightieth Birthday of I.M.Gelfand, Progress in Mathematics 132
ISBN/EAN: 9780817638559
Umbreit-Nr.: 1555523
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xxiv, 328 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 01.12.1995
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabePreface.-Speakers at Conference in Honor of I. M. Gelfand.-Curriculum Vitae of I. M. Gelfand.-List of Publications: 1987-1995.-A Tribute of I. M. Gelfand.-Positive Curvature, Macroscopic Dimension, Spectral Gaps, and Higher Signatures.-Geometric Construction of Polylogarithms, II.-A Note on Localization and the Riemann-Roch Formula.-A Note of ODEs from Mirror Symmetry.
- Kurztext
- 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.