Locally convex spaces Mackey theory Quantum logic Mackey topology Mackey space Mackey–Arens theorem Mackey–Borel structure
Awards
Leroy P. Steele Prize (1975)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematical analysis
Institutions
Harvard University
Thesis
The Subspaces of the Conjugate of an Abstract Linear Space (1942)
Doctoral advisor
Marshall H. Stone
Doctoral students
John V. Breakwell Lawrence G. Brown Paul Chernoff Edward G. Effros Calvin C. Moore Richard Palais Caroline Series John Wermer Robert Zimmer
Other notable students
Andrew M. Gleason
George Whitelaw Mackey (February 1, 1916 – March 15, 2006) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to quantum logic, representation theory, and noncommutative geometry.
George Whitelaw Mackey (February 1, 1916 – March 15, 2006) was an American mathematician known for his contributions to quantum logic, representation theory...
the continuous dual. They are named after GeorgeMackey. Examples of locally convex spaces that are Mackey spaces include: All barrelled spaces and more...
functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, the Mackey topology, named after GeorgeMackey, is the finest topology for a topological vector space...
bounded linear operator. Bornological spaces were first studied by GeorgeMackey.[citation needed] The name was coined by Bourbaki[citation needed] after...
random quantities instead being called random elements. According to GeorgeMackey, Pafnuty Chebyshev was the first person "to think systematically in...
rather than just for particular groups useful in applications, was GeorgeMackey. The theory of unitary representations of topological groups is closely...
the context of the theory of group representations. It was used by GeorgeMackey as the basis for his theory of induced unitary representations of locally...
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the same sets are barrelled. The Mackey–Arens theorem, named after GeorgeMackey and Richard Arens, characterizes all possible dual topologies on a locally...
Haggard, George Jones, Buck Owens, Conway Twitty, and Johnny Paycheck, and is the foundation for his musical success. Mackey opened Bobby Mackey's Music...
measure-theoretic technicalities. Direct integral theory was also used by GeorgeMackey in his analysis of systems of imprimitivity and his general theory of...
to X is the pair (X,B), where B is the σ-algebra of Borel sets of X. GeorgeMackey defined a Borel space somewhat differently, writing that it is "a set...
Michio Suzuki, as well as Frobenius himself. The Mackey decomposition was defined and explored by GeorgeMackey in the context of Lie groups, but is a powerful...
Erin Ashley Mackey (born June 19, 1986) is an American stage actress and singer, known for playing the role of Glinda in the Chicago, Los Angeles, Broadway...
mathematical physicist at Harvard University, where in 1985 he succeeded GeorgeMackey as the Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science...
is constant. A version of the Stone–von Neumann theorem, proved by GeorgeMackey, holds for the Heisenberg group H ( K ) {\displaystyle H(K)} . The Fourier...
Kevin Mackey (born August 21, 1946) is a former head coach of men's basketball at Cleveland State University. His CSU Vikings upset the Indiana Hoosiers...
(rugby union) (1949–2020), Scottish rugby union player GeorgeMackey (1916–2006), mathematician George Mackay (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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