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We provide an introduction to selected recent advances in the mathematical understanding of Einstein's theory of gravitation.
We throw a brief glance at Galois' life, on the occasion of his 200th anniversary (written in German).
The author describes some of his experiences as a mathematician cooperating with diabetes specialists.
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 paper is an introduction to intuitionistic mathematics.
Rejoinder of "Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective" by Guido W. Imbens [arXiv:1410.0163].
This is a free summary of a much longer article published in german in "Forschung Frankfurt". This article presents facts concerning the works of Max Dehn and the history of Frankfurt University. E. Hellinger, R. Moufang, C. L. Siegel, A.…
The present article is devoted to representations of rational numbers in terms sign-variable Cantor expansions. The main attention is given to one of the discussions given by J. Galambos in [4].
A review is given of some mathematical contributions, ideas and questions concerning liquid crystals.
The life and accomplishments of Grete Hermann are described. During the early twentieth century, she worked in physics, mathematics, philosophy and education. Her most notable accomplishments in physics were in the interpretation of quantum…
The present paper gives an account for the general mathematical reader of the life and work of Martin Davis. Since two rather comprehensive autobiographical accounts and two long biographical interviews already exist, the present work…
An outline of J\"org Eschmeier's main mathematical contributions is organized both on a historical perspective, as well as on a few distinct topics. The reader can grasp from our essay the dynamics of spectral theory of commutative tuples…
The primary aim of this chapter is, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Riemann's death, to explain how the idea of {\it Riemann sum} is linked to other branches of mathematics. The materials I treat are more or less classical and…
A portrait of Kurt Goedel with emphasis on his work on relativity theory and idealistic philosophy.
Historian Herbert Mehrtens sought to portray the history of turn-of-the-century mathematics as a struggle of modern vs countermodern, led respectively by David Hilbert and Felix Klein. Some of Mehrtens' conclusions have been picked up by…
I write about H\'ector, his contributions to the early work in the quark model, and a general discussion of quantum statistics
This paper, to appear in the ``Notices of the AMS'' 2024, is a modified version of a text already appeared in this journal, Feb. 2007 after a first publication in French, in ``La Gazette des Math{\'e}maticiens'' 97 (2003) on the occasion of…
This paper is a faithful description of the author's career as a scientist, which often intersected that of Yves Couder. The emphasis of this paper is a true description of how the science that the author has been associated with really…
This paper is devoted to one of the members of the G\"ottingen triumvirate, Gau{\ss}, Dirichlet and Riemann. It is the latter to whom I wish to pay tribute, and especially to his world-famous article of 1859, which he presented in person at…
I discuss some general aspects of the creation, interpretation, and reception of mathematics as a part of civilization and culture.