Functional Analysis and Related Fields

On May 20-24. 1968 a Conference on Functional Analysis and Related Fields was held at the Center for Continuing Education of the University cl Chicago in honor of ProfessoLMARSHALL HARVEY STONE on the occasion of his retirement from active service at the University. The Conference received support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under the Grant AFOSR 68-1497. The Organizing committee for this Conference consisted of ALBERTO P. CALDERON SAUNDERS MACLANE ROBERT G. POHRER and FELIX E. BROWDER (Chairman). The present volume contains some of the papers presented at the Conference. nther talks which were presented at the Conference for which papers are noLinduded K. CHANDRASEKHARAN Zeta functions of quadratic fields; J. L. DooB An application of prob ability theory to the Choquet boundary; HALMOS Irreducible operators; P. R. KADISON Strong continuity of operator functions; L. NIRENBERG Intrinsic norms on complex manifolds; D. SCOTT Some problems and recent results in Boolean algebras; 1. M. SINGER A conjecture relating the Reidemeister torsion and the zeta function of the Laplacian. A banquet in honor of Professor STONE was held during the Con ference with brief talks by S. S. CHERN A. A. ALBERT S. MACLANE E. HEWITT K. CHANDRASEKHARAN and F. E. BROWDER (as Toast master) as weH as a response by Professor STONE.