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MACKEY, George was born on February 1, 1916 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of William Sturges Mackey and Dorothy Frances Allison.
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Designed for students familiar with abstract mathematical concepts but possessing little knowledge of physics, this text focuses on generality and careful formulation rather than problem-solving. Its author, a member of the distinguished National Academy of Science, based this graduate-level text on the course he taught at Harvard University. Opening chapters on classical mechanics examine the laws of particle mechanics; generalized coordinates and differentiable manifolds; oscillations, waves, and Hilbert space; and statistical mechanics. A survey of quantum mechanics covers the old quantum theory; the quantum-mechanical substitute for phase space; quantum dynamics and the Schrödinger equation; the canonical "quantization" of a classical system; some elementary examples and original discoveries by Schrödinger and Heisenberg; generalized coordinates; linear systems and the quantization of the electromagnetic field; and quantum-statistical mechanics. The final section on group theory and quantum mechanics of the atom explores basic notions in the theory of group representations; perturbations and the group theoretical classification of eigenvalues; spherical symmetry and spin; and the n-electron atom and the Pauli exclusion principle.
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During the spring of 1967 the author spent three weeks in Pisa and gave a series of four two-hour expository lectures at the Scuola Normale. These lectures were addressed to a mixed audience of mathematicians and physicists and were designed to explain some of the principal features of the theory of "induced" representations of separable locally compact groups and to indicate how this theory can be useful in quantum physics. No previous knowledge of group representations theory or quantum mechanics was assumed. This book contains the slightly edited text of these lectures as written down at the time by the author. In fact, the lecture time was not quite sufficient, and to some extent the written text is more detailed and complete than were the actual lectures. Moreover, it has proved convenient to rearrange the material a little and to present it in five chapters.
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MACKEY, George was born on February 1, 1916 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of William Sturges Mackey and Dorothy Frances Allison.
Bachelor of Arts, Rice Institute, 1938; A.M., Harvard University, 1939; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1942; Master of Arts, Oxford, 1966.
Instructor mathematics Illinois Institute of Technology, 1942-1943. Faculty instructor mathematics Harvard University, 1943-1946, assistant professor, 1946-1948, associate professor, 1948-1956, professor mathematics, 1956-1969, Landon T. Clay professor mathematics and theoretical science, 1969-1985, professor emeritus, 1985—2006. Visiting professor University Chicago, summer, 1955, University of California at Los Angeles, Summer, 1959, Tata Institute Fundamental Research, Bombay, 1970-1971, University California, Berkeley, 1984.
Walker Ames visiting professor University Washington, summer, 1961. Eastman visiting professor Oxford (England) University, 1966-1967. Associate professor University Paris, 1978.
Visiting researcher Mathematics Science Institute, Berkeley, 1983. Lecturer University Heidelberg, Germany, 1988, City University of New York, 1987, University Iowa, 1988, Kings College of University London, 1991. Invited lecturer University Munich, Germany, 1994, University Heidelberg, 1995.
Visiting lecturer University Tainjin, University Beijing, University Shanghai. University Hong Kong, 1991l member Institute Advanced Study Princeton University, 1978.
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Served as civilian, operational research section 8th Air Force, 1944. Applied mathematics panel National Defense Research Committee, 1945. Member American Mathematics Society (vice president 1964-1965, Steele prize 1974), National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Alice Willard, December 9, 1960. 1 child, Ann Sturges Mackey.