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$C^{*}$-Algebras: 1943–1993

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Robert S. Doran, Editor

Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year: 1994; Volume 167
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5175-3 (print); 978-0-8218-7758-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/167
MathSciNet review: 1292006

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Articles

• I. Gel′fand and M. Neumark – On the imbedding of normed rings into the ring of operators in Hilbert space [MR 1292007]
• Richard V. Kadison – Notes on the Gel′fand-Neumark theorem [MR 1292008]
• Irving Segal – $C^\ast$-algebras and quantization [MR 1292009]
• Marc A. Rieffel – Quantization and $C^\ast$-algebras [MR 1292010]
• Edward G. Effros – Some quantizations and reflections inspired by the Gel′fand-Naĭmark theorem [MR 1292011]
• William Arveson – The role of $C^\ast$-algebras in infinite-dimensional numerical linear algebra [MR 1292012]
• Bruce Blackadar – Projections in $C^\ast$-algebras [MR 1292013]
• Jonathan Rosenberg – $C^\ast$-algebras and Mackey’s theory of group representations [MR 1292014]
• Judith Packer – Transformation group $C^\ast$-algebras: a selective survey [MR 1292015]
• Claude Schochet – Algebraic topology and $C^\ast$-algebras [MR 1292016]
• Masamichi Takesaki – Twenty-five years in the theory of type $\textrm {III}$ von Neumann algebras [MR 1292017]
• Paul Baum, Alain Connes and Nigel Higson – Classifying space for proper actions and $K$-theory of group $C^\ast$-algebras [MR 1292018]
• R. G. Douglas – Odd index theorems and operator algebras [MR 1292019]
• Henri Moscovici and Fangbing Wu – Index theory without symbols [MR 1292020]
• N. Christopher Phillips – A survey of exponential rank [MR 1292021]
• I. Gelfand and M. Neumark – On the imbedding of normed rings into the ring of operators in Hilbert space