Gerard G. Emch is one of the pioneers of the C*-algebraic approach to quantum and classical statistical mechanics. In a prolific scientific career spanning nearly five decades, he has been one of the creative influences in the general area of mathematical physics. The present volume is a collection of tributes, from former students, colleagues, and friends, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The articles featured here are a small yet representative sample of the breadth and reach of some of the ideas from mathematical physics.

It is also a testimony to the impact that Emch's work has had on several generations of mathematical physicists as well as to the diversity of mathematical methods used to understand them.

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Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in mathematical physics.

Table of Contents

• S. T. Ali and M. Englis -- Berezin-Toeplitz quantization over matrix domains
• J.-P. Antoine -- Partial \(^*\)-algebras, a tool for the mathematical description of physical systems
• G. A. Ascoli and G. A. Goldin -- Some variations on Maxwell's equations
• F. Bagarello -- Physical applications of algebras of unbounded operators
• S. De Bievre -- Where's that quantum?
• V. M. Kenkre and F. J. Sevilla -- Thoughts about anomalous diffusion: Time-dependent coefficients versus memory functions
• J. R. Klauder -- Infinite divisibility in Euclidean quantum mechanics
• M. Ohya -- Adaptive dynamics and its application to chaos
• F. E. Schroeck, Jr. -- The \(C^*\) axioms and the phase space formalism of quantum mechanics
• K. B. Sinha -- Stochastic flow on the quantum Heisenberg manifold