Derek W. Robinson

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Derek William Robinson (* 1935 ) is a British theoretical and mathematical physicist and mathematician. He was a professor at the Australian National University .

Robinson is of Irish roots and grew up in southern England. He studied mathematics at Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and received his doctorate in theoretical nuclear physics at Oxford in 1960 with David Brink (Multiple Coulomb Excitations in deformed nuclei). He then did research in Switzerland, Germany, France (where he was at IHES in the 1960s ) and the USA and was a professor in Marseille for ten years . In 1978 he went to the University of New South Wales in Australia as a professor of mathematics and since 1982 he was a professor at the Australian National University.

He dealt mathematically with quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.

With Jorge A. Swieca and Daniel Kastler , he gave a mathematical justification of the Goldstone theorem in 1966 . With Ola Bratteli he wrote a monograph on operator algebras and statistical mechanics.

In 1996 he was President of the Australian Mathematical Society .

Fonts

  • with Daniel Kastler and André Swieca: Conserved currents and associated symmetries; Goldstone's theorem. In: Communications in Mathematical Physics. Vol. 14, 1969, ISSN  0010-3616 , pp. 108-120, doi : 10.1007 / BF01773346 .
  • A proof of the existence of phase transitions in the anisotropic Heisenberg model. In: Communications in Mathematical Physics. Vol. 14, No. 3, 1969, pp. 195-204, doi : 10.1007 / BF01645420 .
  • Thermodynamic pressure in quantum statistical mechanics (= Lecture Notes in Physics. 9). Springer, Berlin et al. 1971, ISBN 3-540-05640-8 .
  • as editor with Francesco Guerra and Raymond Stora Les méthodes mathématiques de la théorie quantique des champs. Marseille, 23-27 June 1975 (= Center National de la Recherche Scientifique. Colloques Internationaux. 248). Éditions du Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-222-01925-7 .
  • with Ola Bratteli : Operator algebras and quantum statistical mechanics. 2 volumes. Springer, New York NY et al. 1979–1981;
    • Volume 1: C * - and W * -algebras, symmetry groups, decomposition of states. 1979, ISBN 3-540-09187-4 ;
    • Volume 2: Equilibrium states, models in quantum statistical mechanics. 1981, ISBN 0-387-10381-3 .
  • as editor with Alain Connes and Daniel Kastler : Algèbres d'opérateurs et leurs applications en physique mathématique. Marseille, 20-24 June 1977 (= Center National de la Recherche Scientifique. Colloques Internationaux. 274). Éditions du Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-222-02441-2 .
  • Elliptic operators and Lie groups. Clarendon Press, Oxford et al. 1991, ISBN 0-19-853591-0 .
  • with Nick Dungey and Antonius FM ter Elst: Analysis on Lie groups with polynomial growth (= Progress in Mathematics. 14). Birkhäuser, Boston MA et al. 2003, ISBN 0-8176-3225-5 .

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  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Derek W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, Derek William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1935