Mackey was born, according to Wikipedia, on Feb. 1, 1916. He died, according to Harvard University, on the night of March 14-15, 2006. He was the author of, notably, “Harmonic Analysis as the Exploitation of Symmetry — A Historical Survey,” pp. 543-698 in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (New Series), Vol. 3, No. 1, July 1980. This is available in a hardcover book published in 1992 by the A.M.S., The Scope and History of Commutative and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis. (370 pages, ISBN 0-8218-9903-1). A paperback edition of this book will apparently be published this month by Oxford University Press (ISBN 978-0-8218-3790-7).
- Introduction
- Harmonic analysis as the exploitation of symmetry: A historical survey
- Herman Weyl and the application of group theory to quantum mechanics
- The significance of invariant measures for harmonic analysis
- Weyl’s program and modern physics
- Induced representations and the applications of harmonic analysis
- Von Neumann and the early days of ergodic theory
- Final remarks
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Log24, Oct. 22, 2002.
Women’s history month continues.