Overview
- Every chapter of the book contains illuminating remarks and open problems and references for other details or topics not discussed.
- The style of the book is fluent.
- It represents an important contribution to the literature on C*-algebras and through results, problems, a stimulating book for researchers."
- Revue Romaine de Mathématiques
Part of the book series: Classics in Mathematics (CLASSICS)
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Biography of Shôichirô Sakai
Shôichirô Sakai was born in 1928 in Kanuma, Japan. He received his B. A. in mathematics in 1953 and his doctorate in 1961 from Tohoku University, Sendai. He was a research assistant there (195-1960), then a faculty member of Waseda University, Tokyo (1960-1964). After 2 years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, he became a professor in 1966 and stayed there till 1979 when he returned to Japan to a chair at Nihon University, Tokyo. Prof. Sakai has also held visiting positions at Yale University (1962-1964) and at MIT (1967-1968). His main interests are in operator algebras, functional analysis and mathematical physics.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: C*-Algebras and W*-Algebras
Authors: Shôichirô Sakai
Series Title: Classics in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61993-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-63633-5Published: 11 December 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-61993-9Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1431-0821
Series E-ISSN: 2512-5257
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 259
Additional Information: Originally published as volume 60 of: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete
Topics: Operator Theory, Functional Analysis, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics