Related papers: Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
I will share with the reader what I have learned from Richard Stanley and the ways in which he has contributed to research in combinatorics conducted by me and my collaborators.
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…
On June 2, 2012 it would have been the eighty fifth birthday of Edwald Abramovitch Zavadskii (1927-2005), corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences, brilliant experimental physicist and a person with a very uncommon and…
This is an expanded version of my talk given at the International Conference ``Algebra and Number Theory'' dedicated to the 80th anniversary of V. E. Voskresenskii, which was held at the Samara State University in May 2007. The goal is to…
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 lecture recalls the memory of Baron Roland Eotvos, an outstanding figure of the experimental exploration of the gravitational interaction.
In celebration of the distinguished achievements of Professor Tsuyoshi Ando in matrix analysis and operator theory, we conducted an interview with him via email. This paper presents Professor Ando's responses to several questions we gave…
The 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian mathematician Vladimir Andreevich Steklov falls on January 9, 2014. In this paper (it is a part of survey to be published in January 2014), we describe advances in one of several…
A short essay on the life and mathematical heritage of Coble. A substantially edited version will be part of the series of biographical memoirs of past members of the National Academy of Sciences. Version 2: minor changes. Version 3. Typo…
This is the preface to a special issue of the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry dedicated to an outstanding physical organic chemist, mentor and friend, Barry Carpenter on the occasion of his official retirement.
This is a slightly edited translation of a paper in Dutch which appeared in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (5) 25 (2024), No.2, 87-90 on the occasion of I.G. Macdonald's death in 2023, and aimed at a very broad mathematical audience. First we…
The essay is devoted to the personality of the prominent theorist D.V. Volkov and his pioneer works in quantum field theory and elementary particle physics.
This paper, which is dedicated to Alan Turing on the 50th anniversary of his death, gives an overview and discusses the philosophical implications of incompleteness, uncomputability and randomness.
Theoretical physics suffered a major loss with the death of my dear friend Jan Zaanen on January 18. This note is my remembrance of him.
This article provides information on the life and work of the number theorist Arnold Scholz. It is an English translation with modifications of an introduction to the correspondence of Hasse, Scholz and Taussky published in 2016.
2023 year marks the hundredth birth anniversary of prominent Russian mathematician and thinker Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (1923-2017). The article presents a selection of quotations from various works of him, devoted to the future of…
Detlef D\"urr (1951-2021) was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who worked particularly on the foundations of quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and statistical mechanics. This piece is a rather personal look back at him and his…
From the Text: How shall I tribute Andrei Khrennikov in this volume? With an email collection of course! But with what theme? It ought to be something big. One of the troubles of QBism's ontological program is that it is so sideways to the…
This paper has been withdrawn by the author. The most updated version can be accessed by arXiv:1806.07290.
The article presents the main milestones of the science and technology biography of Ivan Edward Sutherland. The influence of the family and the school on the development of its research competencies is shown, and little-known biographical…