In this obituary the author highly appreciates the deceased as one of the giants of our era, a creator of ideas and architect of an entire subject. He views Harish-Chandra in a tradition dating back to Frobenius and continued by men such as Cartan, Weyl, Chevalley and Siegel. After a brief biography the historical development of the theory of group representation and of semisimple Lie groups is sketched. In the (larger) rest of the paper the author describes some of the most important results of the scientific work of Harish-Chandra, all in connection with the representation of semisimple Lie groups, but nevertheless showing a wide comprehension of methods and connections with other mathematical topics.
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2064581
- Harish-Chandra and his work
- Collected papers V (posthumous). Harmonic analysis in real semisimple groups. Edited by Ramesh Gangolli and V. S. Varadarajan. With assistance from Johan Kolk
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1512870
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3869289
This page was built for publication: Harish-Chandra (1923-1983)
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q801889)
