Felix Berezin : life and death of the mastermind of supermathematics
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書誌事項
Felix Berezin : life and death of the mastermind of supermathematics
World Scientific, c2007
- pbk.
注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Felix Berezin was an outstanding Soviet mathematician who in the 1960s and 70s was the driving force behind the emergence of the branch of mathematics now known as supermathematics. The integral over the anticommuting Grassmann variables that he introduced in the 1960s laid the foundation for the path integral formulation of quantum field theory with fermions, the heart of modern supersymmetric field theories and superstrings. The Berezin integral is named for him, as is the closely related construction of the Berezinian, which may be regarded as the superanalog of the determinant.This book features a masterfully written memoir by Berezin's widow, Elena Karpel, who narrates a remarkable account of Berezin's life and his struggle for survival under the totalitarian Soviet regime. Supplemented with recollections by his close friends and colleagues, Berezin's accomplishments in mathematics, his novel ideas and breakthrough works, are reviewed in two articles written by Andrei Losev and Robert Minlos.
目次
- Berezin Integral (A Losev)
- Felix Berezin. A Brief Scientific Biography (R Minlos)
- The Last Journey (E Karpel)
- My Encounters with Felix Berezin (D Gitman)
- Felix Berezin and His Time (V Paslamodov)
- Reminiscences of a Close Friend (N Vvedenskaya)
- Remembering Berezin (V P Maslov)
- On Berezin (M A Shubin)
- My Recollections on Berezin (A M Vershik)
- Creation of Supermathematics (D Leites)
- Berezin's Seminar (V Golo).
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