Zalar, Borut History of the Vidav theorem. (Slovenian. English summary) Zbl 0763.46001 Obz. Mat. Fiz. 40, No. 1, 9-14 (1993). Summary: 27 years of the history of the Vidav-Palmer-Rodriguez theorem are described. Those authors whose contributions to the evolution of this theorem are the most important are presented. Short descriptions of their ideas and methods they used in proofs are also included. MSC: 46-03 History of functional analysis 46L05 General theory of \(C^*\)-algebras 46L70 Nonassociative selfadjoint operator algebras 17A15 Noncommutative Jordan algebras 01A65 Development of contemporary mathematics Keywords:history of the Vidav-Palmer-Rodriguez theorem PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{B. Zalar}, Obz. Mat. Fiz. 40, No. 1, 9--14 (1993; Zbl 0763.46001)