Collected papers. Ed. by Kiyosi Itô (Q4032145)

The present collection contains nearly all of the mathematical papers of Kôsaku Yosida which were written in English. Of the one hundred and eight papers listed in the (chronologically arranged) Bibliography at the back of this volume, only eight are not included in this collection. The Bibliography also lists twenty-three books by Yosida, originally in Japanese, and two in English. Of course, some of these twenty-three titles have been translated into other languages, including English. The papers are grouped into ten sections by topic. Each of the sections begins with a very useful series of comments which give the reader a brief overview of the papers in the section as well as some insight into the importance of the papers as well as an indication of the proof methods used. The contents are as follows: 1. Meromorphic functions and ordinary differential equations, 11 papers; 2. Topological groups and Lie groups, 12 papers; 3. Ergodic theory, 14 papers; 4. Spectral theorems, Vector lattices, and Miscellanea, 21 papers; 5. Semigroups and evolution equations, 8 papers; 6. Diffusion equations, 11 papers; 7. Markov processes, 8 papers; 8. Hyperbolic equations, 3 papers; 9. Potential theory, 8 papers; 10. Operational calculus, 4 papers.