Factorization of matrix functions and singular integral operators: K. Clancey and I. Gohberg, Birkhauser, 1981, 234 pp.
✍ Scribed by Gian-Carlo Rota
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 66 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-8708
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✦ Synopsis
The late William Feller used to say: "I could'stare all my life at a symmetric matrix, I will never get Hilbert space out of it!" And sure enough, Hilbert space has proved to be one of the richest inventions of the mathematical mind. Like a good invention, just at the point when everyone thinks her dead, it springs back to life with the cry "Eadem resurge." We wish it a long ninth life. N. F. HURT, Geometric Quantizalion in Action, Reidel, 1982, 336 pp.
As one leafs through this book, the intriguing question comes up whether the author is a mathematician or a physicist. The topics have been chosen with a good eye to the physics, but the exposition is too spotless for a physicist. A good sign either way.