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Topic #7 --------------- OP-SF NET --------------- September 12, 1996

Death of Carl Herz

From: Tom H. Koornwinder

Carl S. Herz, Redpath Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University, died on May 1, 1995 at the age of 65. His general area of research was harmonic analysis in a wide sense. His paper "Bessel functions of matrix argument", Annals of Math. 61 (1955), 474-523 was a pioneering paper in the field of special functions in several variables associated with Lie groups and with root systems.

See also the obituary Carl Herz 1930-1995 in Notices AMS, July 1996, which is partly reproduced from Canadian Math. Soc. Notes, December 1995.


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