E. Prugovecki's Home Page

NOTE: Updated information about Dr. E. Prugovecki and his publications can be found on the web site:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/prugovecki/

Address:

• Eduard Prugovecki
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Toronto
  Toronto, Canada M5S 3G3
• Tel: (416) 978-4948
• E-mail: e.prugovecki@utoronto.ca

Degrees:

• Dipl. Phys. (University of Zagreb, Croatia, 1959)
• Ph.D. (Princeton University, U.S.A., 1964)

Position:

• Professor of Mathematical Physics 1975-97
  Professor Emeritus 1997-
  University of Toronto

Research interests:

• Foundations of quantum mechanics (1961-67)
• Functional analysis and quantum scattering theory (1967-75)
• Quantum mechanics on phase space (1975-84)
• Quantum field theory and quantum geometry (1984-89)
• Unification of quantum theory and general relativity (1989-96)

Note: The above topics represent five stages in research activities that span 35 years.Their conclusions were published in a variety of research papers, whose main results are systematically presented in the following four monographs.

Monographs:

• Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space(Academic Press, New York, 1st edition 1971; 2nd edition 1981)
• Stochastic Quantum Mechanics andQuantum Spacetime (Reidel, Dordrecht, 1984; revised printing 1986)
• Quantum Geometry (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1992)
• Principles of Quantum General Relativity (World Scientific, Singapore, 1995)

Other publications:

• About a hundred research papers published in refereed scientific journals
• About a dozen review papers published in conference proceedings