Eduard Prugovečki

Eduard Prugovecki ( born March 19, 1937 in Craiova, Romania; † 13 October 2003 in Mexico) was a Canadian physicist and mathematician Croatian- Romanian descent.

Prugovecki was born in 1937, the son of Helen (née Piatkowski ) and Slavoljub in Craiova. 1951 had to move to Zagreb, where Prugovecki graduated from school and study physics at the University of Zagreb started the family due to anti-Yugoslav currents in communist Romania. After he had received his diploma in 1959, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Rugjer Bošković Institute in Zagreb.

1961 went Prugovecki top of his year group at Princeton University, where he began his doctorate under the theoretical physicist Arthur Wightman, which he in 1964 as a Ph.D. completed. In 1965 he moved to Canada, where he. First two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Edmonton, Alberta, then worked as a lecturer at the University of Alberta one years

He taught physics at the University of Toronto from 1967 to 1997. In 1974 he spent a year as a visiting professor at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Marseille.

1998 Prugovecki went into retirement, he first spent in Honey Harbour, Ontario and subsequently at the Lake Chapala in Mexico, where he died in 2003 aged 66.

Eduard Prugovecki authored several textbooks. In particular, his book Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space, which provides a mathematically relatively comprehensive introduction to the abstract quantum mechanics, is widespread.

Works

  • Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space, Academic Press 1971, ISBN 0125660502
  • Stochastic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Spacetime, Kluwer 1984, ISBN 902771617X
  • Quantum Geometry, Kluwer 1992
  • Principles of Quantum General Relativity, World Scientific 1995, ISBN 981022138X
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