Functional Analysis on the Eve of the 21st Century: In Honor of the Eightieth Birthday of I. M. Gelfand

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This is Volume 2 of a two-volume set which contains 18 invited papers in honour of the 80th birthday of mathematician Israel M. Gelfand, who is considered to have played an important role in the development of functional analysis in the latter half of the 20th century. The papers cover areas in which Gelfand has a strong interest, including geometric quantum field theory, representation theory, combinatorial structures underlying various continuous constructions, quantum groups and geometry. This second volume contains the more geometric papers.