nLab Marshall Stone

• Wikipedia entry

On Stone’s influence on category theory:

• Saunders MacLane, The Influence of M. H. Stone on the Origins of Category Theory, in Functional Analysis and Related Fields, Springer (1970) [doi:10.1007/978-3-642-48272-4_12]

and via his original observation of the notion of adjoint operators:

• Saunders Mac Lane: §5 in: Concepts and Categories in Perspective, in: P. Duren, A century of mathematics in America Part 1, AMS (1988) 323-365. [pdf, ISBN:0-8218-0124-4]

Selected writings

Proving what came to be known as the Stone-von Neumann theorem:

• Marshall H. Stone: Linear transformations in Hilbert space. III. Operational methods and group theory, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 16 (1930) 172–175 [jstor:85485, doi:10.1073/pnas.16.2.172]

Related entries

• Stone duality

• Stone-von Neumann theorem