Open AccessHarish-Chandra, 11 October 1923 - 16 October 1983
Author(s) -
R. P. Langlands
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
biographical memoirs of fellows of the royal society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1748-8494
pISSN - 0080-4606
DOI - 10.1098/rsbm.1985.0008
Subject(s) - representation (politics) , field (mathematics) , mathematics education , computer science , mathematics , pure mathematics , political science , politics , law
Harish-chandra was one of the outstanding mathematicians of his generation, an algebraist and analyst, and one of those responsible for transforming infinite-dimensional group representation theory from a modest topic on the periphery of mathematics and physics into a major field central to contemporary mathematics.
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