Functional analysis on the eve of the 21st century. Volume I. In honor of the eightieth birthday of I. M. Gelfand. Proceedings of the conference, held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, October 24-27, 1993 (Q1905716)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Aomoto, Kazuhiko}, Connection formulas in the \(q\)-analog de Rham cohomology, 1-12 [Zbl 0845.33010] \textit{Brylinski, Ranee; Kostant, Bertram}, Lagrangian models of minimal representations of \(E_ 6\), \(E_ 7\) and \(E_ 8\), 13-63 [Zbl 0851.22017] \textit{Frenkel, Igor B.; Turaev, Vladimir G.}, Trigonometric solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation, nets, and hypergeometric functions, 65-118 [Zbl 0864.57024] \textit{Kapranov, M. M.}, Analogies between the Langlands correspondence and topological quantum field theory, 119-151 [Zbl 0858.11062] \textit{Kazhdan, David}, ``Forms'' of the principal series for \(\underline {GL}_ n\), 153-171 [Zbl 0849.22018] \textit{Kontsevich, Maxim; Vishik, Simeon}, Geometry of determinants of elliptic operators, 173-197 [Zbl 0920.58061] \textit{Lusztig, George}, Quantum groups at \(\nu=\infty\), 199-221 [Zbl 0856.17013] \textit{Mathieu, Olivier}, The symplectic operad, 223-243 [Zbl 0857.58043] \textit{Moeglin, C.}, Quadratic unipotent representations of \(p\)-adic groups, 245-262 [Zbl 0844.22022] \textit{Singer, I. M.}, On the master field in two dimensions, 263-281 [Zbl 0861.53075] \textit{Witten, Edward}, Physical methods applied to Donaldson theory, 283-292 [Zbl 0862.57014] Israel M. Gelfand, xii-xviii [Zbl 0841.01018] \textit{Singer, I. M.}, Tribute to I. M. Gelfand for his 80th birthday celebration, xix-xxii [Zbl 0841.01019]