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This memorial article for Mark Sapir provides a brief overview of his life and career. Among his many contributions we highlight two of his most celebrated achievements: his groundbreaking solutions to Burnside-type problems for semigroups…
Doob's essential contributions to Probability theory are discussed; this includes the main early results on martingale theory, Doob's $h$-transform, as well as a summary of Doob's three books. Finally, Doob's `stochastic triangle' is viewed…
This article is a reflection on the mathematical legacy of Professor Petr Simon.
Life and the mathematical legacy of the great mathematician A.V. Pogorelov.
Life and the mathematical legacy of the great mathematician A.V. Pogorelov.
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…
Logic has its origins in basic questions about the nature of the real world and how we describe it. This article seeks to bring out the physical and epistemological relevance of some of the more recent technical work in logic and…
Turing's (1936) paper on computable numbers has played its role in underpinning different perspectives on the world of information. On the one hand, it encourages a digital ontology, with a perceived flatness of computational structure…
This is a short tribute to Alexandr Alexandrov (1912--1999).
This year is the 100th birth anniversary of Richard Philips Feynman. This article commemorates his scientific contributions and lasting legacy.
The comments relate to the often overlooked, if not in fact intentionally disregarded depths of what the so called internal aspects of mathematical knowledge may involve, depths concerning among others issues such as its unreasonable…
This article covers my second talk at the Gathering for Gardner in March, 2010. It is about an Odd One Out puzzle I invented, after having been inspired by Martin Gardner. I do not like Odd One Out questions; that is why I invented one.
Egbert Brieskorn died on July 11, 2013, a few days after his 77th birthday. He was an impressive personality who has left a lasting impression on all who knew him, whether inside or outside of mathematics. Brieskorn was a great…
We describe the development of the mathematics of Helmut R. Salzmann (3. 11. 1930 -- 8. 3. 2022) and the main difficulties he was facing, documenting his lifelong productivity and his far reaching influence. We include a comprehensive…
Professor A. K. Raychaudhuri suddenly passed away on 18th June 2005. I have attempted to give a glimpse of his life and work, and more specifically his role as a great teacher and inspiring force to three generations of students of the…
This editorial summarizes selected key contributions of Prof. Stephen Grossberg and describes the papers in this 80th birthday special issue in his honor. His productivity, creativity, and vision would each be enough to mark a scientist of…
The last century saw dramatic challenges to the Laplacian predictability which had underpinned scientific research for around 300 years. Basic to this was Alan Turing's 1936 discovery (along with Alonzo Church) of the existence of…
I was lucky to meet (and even cooperate at some extent) with Israel M. Gelfand, and tried to write down (mainly in 2003-2013) my recollections about his work style and lessons I learned from him about teaching and writing mathematics…
About Conway's surreal numbers: A letter to a friend (written in French). In memoriam John Horton Conway.
David Mumford made groundbreaking contributions in many fields, including the pure mathematics of algebraic geometry and the applied mathematics of machine learning and artificial intelligence. His work in both fields influenced my career…