Joseph Albert Wolf (born October 18, 1936 in Chicago) is an American mathematician. He is now professor emeritus at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. Wolf graduated from at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and with his master's degree in 1957 and his Ph.D. under the supervision of

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in 1959 (''On the manifolds covered by a given compact, connected Riemannian homogeneous manifold''). From 1960 to 1962, as a post-doctoral researcher, he was at the

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in Princeton, New Jersey (and again from 1965 to 1966). In 1962 he was assistant professor and since 1966 he has been professor at Berkeley. Wolf considers applications of group theory to differential geometry and complex manifolds and applications of harmonic analysis to the theory of elementary particles and control theory. In 1994 he received the

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and in 1977 the Medal of the

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. In 1989 he received an honorary professorship at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina. From 1972 to 1973 and from 1983 to 1984, he was a Miller Research Professor in Berkeley. He is a fellow of the

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and member of the

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. From 1965 to 1967 he was a

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. He held a

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Research Professorship twice, in the 1972–73 and 1983–84 academic years.

Writings

*''Spaces of constant curvature'', McGraw Hill 1967, 6. Edition AMS Chelsea Publ. 2011 *''Harmonic analysis on commutative spaces'', American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, Vol. 142, 2007 *''Spherical functions on Euclidean space'', J. Funct. Anal., volume 239, 2006, pp. 127–136 *With Gregor Fels,

Alan Huckleberry Alan Trinler Huckleberry (born February 18, 1941) is an American mathematician who works in complex analysis, Lie groups actions and algebraic geometry. He is currently (since 2009) Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Ruhr University Bochum and ...

''Cycle spaces of flag domains: a complex geometric viewpoint'', Progress in Mathematics 245, Birkhäuser, 2006 ** *''Classification and fourier inversion for parabolic subgroups with square integrable nilradical'', Memoirs AMS 225, 1979 *''Unitary representations of maximal parabolic subgroups of the classical groups'', Memoirs AMS 180, 1976 *''Representations on partially holomorphic cohomology spaces'', Memoirs AMS 138, 1974 *Editor ''Harmonic analysis and representations of semisimple Lie groups'', (NATO Advanced Study Institute, Lüttich 1977), Reidel 1980 *''Principal series representations of direct limit groups'', Compositio Mathematica, v. 141 (2005),pp. 1504–1530. *''Complex forms of quaternionic symmetric spaces'', in ''Complex, contact and symmetric manifolds'', Progress in Mathematics 234, Birkhäuser 2005, pp. 265–277 *''Locally symmetric homogeneous spaces'', Comm. Math. Helvetici, volume 37, 1962, pp. 65–101 *''Self adjoint function spaces on Riemannian symmetric manifolds'', Transactions AMS, volume 113, 1964, pp. 299–315

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Homepage in Berkeley
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