Michael Cowling
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Michael Cowling is an Australian pure mathematician who was born in Melbourne in 1949. He gained a BSc (Hons) (1971) from ANU and a PhD (1974) from Flinders University. After some years mainly at the University of Genoa, he became Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of New South Wales in 1983. His work centres on harmonic analysis and geometry of Lie groups. He was the 1989 winner of the Australian Mathematical Society Medal.
He is currently Scientia Professor at UNSW and Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics. He is past President of the Australian Mathematical Society.
[edit] Selected Publications
- Cowling, Michael; Dooley A. H., Koranyi A., and Ricci F. (1991). "H-type groups and Iwasawa decompositions". Advances in Mathematics 87: 1-41.
- Cowling, Michael; Haagerup, Uffe (October, 1989). "Completely bounded multipliers of the Fourier algebra of a simple Lie group of real rank one". Inventiones Mathematicae 96 (3): 507-549. Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
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[edit] References
Bright Sparcs entry, Michael George Cowling
