Haar measure
Medida de Haar
- Date
- 1933 · confidence high
- Place
- Szeged, Hungary
- Credited to
- Alfréd Haar
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Hungarian mathematician Alfréd Haar introduced the Haar measure in 1933 at the University of Szeged, assigning an invariant volume to subsets of locally compact topological groups, a fundamental tool of harmonic analysis and representation theory.
What it led to
- Harmonic analysis on topological groups
- Group representation theory
- Foundations of probability on groups
- Ergodic theory and number theory