Henry Jack

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Henry Jack
Born	July 6, 1917
Died	January 5, 1978(1978-01-05) (aged 60)
Nationality	Scottish
Fields	Mathematics
Known for	Jack function

Henry Jack (1917 – 1978) was a Scottish mathematician at University College Dundee.^[1] The Jack polynomials are named after him. His research dealt with the development of analytic methods to evaluate certain integrals over matrix spaces. His most famous paper relates his integrals to classes of symmetric polynomials important in the theory of the representation of the symmetric group. He discovered a new, natural basis for the symmetric polynomials.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Sands, Arthur D. (1979). "Obituary for Henry Jack". Proc. Edin. Math. Soc. (Series 2) 22: 61–62. doi:10.1017/S0013091500027814.
↑ Jack, H. (1970). "A class of symmetric polynomials with a parameter". Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. Sect. A. 69: 1–18.
↑ Kuznetsov, V. B.; Sahi, S. Jack, Hall-Littlewood, and Macdonald polynomials. ISBN 0-8218-3683-8.

Persondata
Name	Jack, Henry
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Short description	Scottish mathematician
Date of birth	1917
Place of birth
Date of death	1978
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