Harish-Chandra (1923-1983)
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Harish-Chandra (1923-1983)
zbMATH Open document ID: 0553.01016
DOI: 10.1007/BF03024122
author: V. S. Varadarajan
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: 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.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
zbMATH DE Number: 3880636
zbMATH Keywords: Harish-Chandra
zbMATH Keywords: Frobenius
zbMATH Keywords: Cartan
zbMATH Keywords: Weyl
zbMATH Keywords: Chevalley
zbMATH Keywords: Siegel
zbMATH Keywords: theory of group representation
zbMATH Keywords: semisimple Lie groups
Wikidata QID: Q56268155
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024122
OpenAlex ID: W2014630592
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3880636