Joseph A. Wolf

Joseph Albert Wolf (born October 18, 1936 in Chicago)[1] is an American mathematician. He is now professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Joseph A. Wolf
Wolf in 2005
Born (1936-10-18) 18 October 1936
Chicago, Illinois, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
AwardsHumboldt Research Award
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Study
University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorShiing-Shen Chern

Wolf graduated from at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and with his master's degree in 1957 and his Ph.D. under the supervision of Shiing-Shen Chern in 1959 (On the manifolds covered by a given compact, connected Riemannian homogeneous manifold).[2] From 1960 to 1962, as a post-doctoral researcher, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (and again from 1965 to 1966). In 1962 he was assistant professor and since 1966 he has been professor at Berkeley.

Wolf considers applications of group theory to differential geometry and complex manifolds and applications of harmonic analysis to the theory of elementary particles and control theory. In 1994 he received the Humboldt Research Award and in 1977 the Medal of the University of Liège. In 1989 he received an honorary professorship at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina. From 1972 to 1973 and from 1983 to 1984, he was a Miller Research Professor in Berkeley.

He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[3] and member of the Swiss Mathematical Society. From 1965 to 1967 he was a Sloan Fellow. He held a Miller Research Professorship twice, in the 1972–73 and 1983–84 academic years.

Writings
  • Spaces of constant curvature, McGraw Hill 1967, 6. Edition AMS Chelsea Publ. 2011 ISBN 978-0-8218-5282-8
  • Harmonic analysis on commutative spaces, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, Vol. 142, 2007
  • Spherical functions on Euclidean space, J. Funct. Anal., volume 239, 2006, pp. 127–136arXiv:math/0509459
  • With Gregor Fels, Alan Huckleberry Cycle spaces of flag domains: a complex geometric viewpoint, Progress in Mathematics 245, Birkhäuser, 2006
  • Classification and fourier inversion for parabolic subgroups with square integrable nilradical, Memoirs AMS 225, 1979
  • Unitary representations of maximal parabolic subgroups of the classical groups, Memoirs AMS 180, 1976
  • Representations on partially holomorphic cohomology spaces, Memoirs AMS 138, 1974
  • Editor Harmonic analysis and representations of semisimple Lie groups, (NATO Advanced Study Institute, Lüttich 1977), Reidel 1980
  • Principal series representations of direct limit groups, Compositio Mathematica, v. 141 (2005),pp. 1504–1530. arXiv:math/0402283
  • Complex forms of quaternionic symmetric spaces, in Complex, contact and symmetric manifolds, Progress in Mathematics 234, Birkhäuser 2005, pp. 265–277 arXiv:math/0308283
  • Locally symmetric homogeneous spaces, Comm. Math. Helvetici, volume 37, 1962, pp. 65–101 doi:10.1007/BF02566963
  • Self adjoint function spaces on Riemannian symmetric manifolds, Transactions AMS, volume 113, 1964, pp. 299–315 doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1964-0170982-7

References
  1. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-11-26.
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