George Whitelaw Mackey (St. Louis (Missouri), 1 de fevereiro de 1916 — Belmont (Massachusetts), 15 de março de 2006) foi um matemático estadunidense.
Mackey obteve o Bachelor of Arts na Universidade Rice em 1938 e o Ph.D. na Universidade Harvard em 1942, orientado por Marshall Harvey Stone. Em 1943 trabalhou no Departamento de Matemática da Universidade Harvard, sendo indicado Professor da Cátedra Landon T. Clay de Matemática e Ciência Teórica em 1969, onde permaneceu até aposentar-se em 1985.
Obras
- Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics[1] (Dover Books on Mathematics) ISBN 0-486-43517-2
- Unitary Group Representations in Physics, Probability, and Number Theory, 402 pages, Benjamin–Cummings Publishing Company (1978), ISBN 0-8053-6703-9[2]
- The theory of Unitary Group Representations (Chicago Lectures in Mathematics) University Of Chicago Press (August 1, 1976) ISBN 0-226-50051-9[3]
- Induced representations of groups and quantum mechanics, Publisher: W. A. Benjamin (1968)
- Mathematical Problems of Relativistic Physics (Lectures in Applied Mathematics Series, Vol 2) by I. E. Segal, George Whitelaw Mackey, Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society (June 1967) ISBN 0-8218-1102-9
- Lectures on the theory of functions of a complex variable Publisher: R. E. Krieger Pub. Co (1977) ISBN 0-88275-531-5
Referências
Ligações externas
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., «George Mackey», MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (em inglês), Universidade de St. Andrews
- George Mackey (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project
- George Mackey (1916–2006), Notices of the American Mathematical Society; vol. 54, no. 7 (August 2007).
- George Mackey (1 February 1916–15 March 2006)[ligação inativa], Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society; vol. 152, no. 4 (December 2008).
- Commemorative website at Harvard Math Department
- Obituary from Harvard Gazette
- Obituary from Boston Globe
- Peter Woit's blog entry on Mackey
- Two letters from George Mackey and the text of his speech "What do Mathematicians Do?, collected by Stephanie Singer