Eduard Prugovečki

Eduard Prugovečki (born March 19, 1937 in Craiova , Romania , † October 13, 2003 in Mexico ) was a Canadian physicist and mathematician of Croatian- Romanian descent.

Prugovečki was born in Craiova in 1937 as the son of Helena (nee Piatkowski) and Slavoljub. In 1951 , due to anti-Yugoslav currents in communist Romania , the family had to move to Zagreb , where Prugovečki graduated from school and began studying physics at the University of Zagreb . After receiving his diploma in 1959, he worked as a research assistant in the theoretical physics department at the Rugjer Bošković Institute in Zagreb.

In 1961 Prugovečki went to Princeton University as the best of his class , where he began his doctorate under the theoretical physicist Arthur Wightman , which he received in 1964 as Ph.D. completed. In 1965 he moved to Canada, where he first worked for two years as a postdoc at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Edmonton , Alberta, and then for a year as a lecturer at the University of Alberta .

He taught physics at the University of Toronto from 1967 to 1997. In 1974 he spent a year as a visiting professor at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Marseille .

In 1998 Prugovečki retired, which he spent first in Honey Harbor , Ontario and then on Lake Chapala in Mexico , where he died in 2003 at the age of 66.

Eduard Prugovečki wrote several textbooks. In particular, his book Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space , which provides a mathematically relatively well-founded introduction to abstract quantum mechanics, is widespread.

Works

• Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space , Academic Press 1971, ISBN 0125660502
• Stochastic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Spacetime , Kluwer 1984, ISBN 902771617X
• Quantum Geometry , Kluwer 1992
• Principles of Quantum General Relativity , World Scientific 1995, ISBN 981022138X

Web links

• Entry in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Biography on the homepage of the University of Toronto