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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gindikin, Simon
• Lepowsky, James
• Wilson, Robert L

Titel

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

Ist Teil von

• Progress in Mathematics : 131/132

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston

Erscheinungsjahr

1995

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• A four-day conference, "Functional Analysis on the Eve of the TwentyFirst 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 operators (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