Related papers: A Tribute to Bill Kruskal
Discussion of "Latent variable graphical model selection via convex optimization" by Venkat Chandrasekaran, Pablo A. Parrilo and Alan S. Willsky [arXiv:1008.1290].
In the 80th anniversary book for Alex M\"uller I wrote a story of our scientific collaboration, Shared Fascinations. This time I will be more personal, about the human side of our collaboration and encounters, while also referring to…
Perspectives article on J. Xiong et al., Science 350, 413 (2015).
We have reviewed the comment in [3], posted on arXiv.org concerning our recent work in [1]. We reply to the comment in this paper.
This is the editors' preface to the volume "Operator theory and its applications, in memory of V. B. Lidskii (1924-2008)". The volume was published by the American Mathematical Society in the series AMS Translations, series 2, volume 231…
This comment regards a recently published preprint by R.Babbush, J.A.Parkhill, and A.Aspuru-Guzik, arXiv:1306.4332.
This is based on the after-dinner talk given at the 70th Birthday Conference for Michael E. Fisher at Rutgers in December, 2001. It is longer than the talk, incorporating additional text from the after-dinner talk I gave at Fisher's 60th…
The recollection of souvenirs on great theoretical physicist, addressed to wide physical audience on the occasion of Bogoliubov centenary. Contains four parts: 1. Personal impressions; 2. Joint work; 3. Bogoliubov cp. Landau and 4.…
E. M. Chudnovsky has recently posted on the ArXive his Reply (arXiv:0805.2918) to my Comment (Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 199703 (2008)) on his recent Letter (E. M. Chudnovsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206601 (2007)). In order to avoid possible…
This is Chapter 1 in the book General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective, Edited by Abhay Ashtekar (Editor in Chief), Beverly Berger, James Isenberg, Malcolm MacCallum. Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June, 2015).…
Submitted to F. Schweitzer (ed.), Microscopic Models for Economic Dynamics, Lecture notes in physics, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg 2002.kiel.tex
Talk at the International Conference ``G\'eom\'etrie au vingti\`eme ci\`ecle: 1930--2000'', Paris, Institut Henri Poincar\'e, Sept. 2001. The title is a homage to Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz whose book fascinated the author many years…
Selected events of the scientific biography of Wojtek Dziembowski are briefly described, and several related photos are presented. The full version of the presentation is available at the IAU Symposium 301 webpage.
Discussion of "Bayesian Models and Methods in Public Policy and Government Settings" by S. E. Fienberg [arXiv:1108.2177]
I review the history of scientific research on galaxy clusters, from 1784, the year of publication of Messier's catalogue, to 1983, the year of George O. Abell's premature death. My review covers four main topics: 1) the distribution of…
Telegraphic notes on the historical bibliography of the Gamma function and Eulerian integrals. Correction to some classical references. Some topics of the interest of the author. We provide some extensive (but not exhaustive) bibliography.…
Steven Weinberg productive scientific life teaches us many things, one of the most important of which is the power of his example. This essay contains personal reminiscences and a speculation about gravitational wave propagation based on…
Brief recollections of two giants of physics, their origins, similarities and differences.
The paper is written for Kluwer's Encyclopaedia of Mathematics.
GGR News: - The View from the NSF, by Beverly Berger - GGR Program at the APS meeting in Jacksonville we hear that..., by David Garfinkle - 100 years ago, by David Garfinkle Research Briefs: - The Double Pulsar, by Michael Kramer -…