nLab Andrew Gleason

Andrew Gleason was the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University.

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Selected writings

On extremally disconnected topological spaces as projective objects:

• Andrew M. Gleason, Projective topological spaces , Ill. J. Math. 2 no.4A (1958) pp.482-489. (euclid:ijm/1255454110)

On equivariant Tietze extension theorems and on the slice theorem:

• Andrew Gleason, Spaces with a compact Lie group of transformations, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1950), 35-43 (doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1950-0033830-7)

On Gleason's theorem:

• Andrew Gleason, Measures on the closed subspaces of a Hilbert space, Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 6 4 (1957), 885-893 [IUMJ:56050, pdf]

Related $n$Lab entries

• Gleason's theorem

• Kochen-Specker theorem

• von Neumann algebra

• quantum state

• Stone Spaces

• equivariant Tietze extension theorem

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