Simon Gindikin
Russian mathematician
Simon Grigorevich Gindikin (Russian: Семён Григорьевич Гиндикин; born 7 December 1937, Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a mathematician at Rutgers University who introduced the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula for the Harish-Chandra c-function.
Publications
Gindikin, S. G.; Karpelevich, F. I. (1962), "Plancherel measure for symmetric Riemannian spaces of non-positive curvature", Soviet Math. Dokl., 3: 962–965, ISSN 0002-3264, MR 0150239
Gindikin, S. G.; Karpelevich, F. I. (1969) [1966], "On an integral associated with Riemannian symmetric spaces of non-positive curvature", Twelve Papers on Functional Analysis and Geometry, American Mathematical Society translations, vol. 85, pp.
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