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Gian-Carlo Rota once asserted that "every mathematician only has a few tricks". The sheer breadth and ingenuity in the work of Jean Bourgain may at first glance appear to be a counterexample to this maxim. However, as we hope to illustrate…
Mathematical challenges punctuate the history of early modern mathematics. While cultural historians have attempted to contextualize these challenges among contemporary practices, in particular duels or advertisements in a competitive…
We introduce an abstract topos-theoretic framework for building Galois-type theories in a variety of different mathematical contexts; such theories are obtained from representations of certain atomic two-valued toposes as toposes of…
Galois orders, introduced in 2010 by V. Futorny and S. Ovsienko, form a class of associative algebras that contain many important examples, such as the enveloping algebra of $\mathfrak{gl}_n$ (as well as its quantum deformation),…
A strategy to address the inverse Galois problem over Q consists of exploiting the knowledge of Galois representations attached to certain automorphic forms. More precisely, if such forms are carefully chosen, they provide compatible…
Mathematics has become inescapable in modern, digitized societies: there is hardly any area of life left that isn't affected by it, and we as mathematicians play a central role in this. Our actions affect what others, in particular our…
This paper frames calculus as a global, centuries-long development rather than a subject that began only with Newton and Leibniz. Drawing on ideas from Greek, Indian, Islamic, and later European mathematics, it highlights how concepts like…
This paper is divided into two sections. In the first I give reasons for strongly recommending reading some of Henkin's expository papers. In the second I describe Leon Henkin's work as a social activists in the field of mathematics…
Galois connections are a foundational tool for structuring abstraction in semantics and their use lies at the heart of the theory of abstract interpretation. Yet, mechanization of Galois connections remains limited to restricted modes of…
We throw a brief glance at Galois' life, on the occasion of his 200th anniversary (written in German).
This paper aims at shedding a new light on the novelty of Poincar\'e's M\'ethodes nouvelles de la m\'ecanique c\'eleste. The latter's approach to the three-body-problem has often been celebrated as a starting point of chaos theory in…
The inverse Galois problem asks whether any finite group can be realised as the Galois group of a Galois extension of the rationals. This problem and its refinements have stimulated a large amount of research in number theory and algebraic…
The fundamental concepts in the Galois Theory are separable, normal and Galois field extensions. These concepts are central in proofs of the Galois Theory. In the paper, we introduce a new approach, a ring theoretic approach, to the Galois…
For many finite groups, the Inverse Galois Problem can be approached through modular/automorphic Galois representations. This is a report explaining the basic strategy, ideas and methods behind some recent results. It focusses mostly on the…
It is quite natural to wonder whether there is a difference-differential equations, the Galois group of which is a quantum group that is neither commutative nor co-commutative. Believing that there was no such linear equations, we explored…
This essay develops a parallel between the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory and the Stone--Weierstrass theorem: both can be viewed as assertions that tie the distinguishing power of a class of objects to their expressive power. We…
Galois connections were introduced by Ore and have proved useful in a wide variety of mathematical areas. While Galois connections play on the ground of posets (or more generally of quasiordered sets or qosets), we extend this notion to…
In this small note I try to summarize some observations about Euclid's remarkable role in mathematics and about the ambient philosophy.
This is an English translation of Nikolai Chebotaryov's paper "Die Probleme der modernen Galoisschen Theorie" from 1932. An excerpt from this paper was given as a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Z\"urich in 1932.…
Mathematics and its relation to the physical universe have been the topic of speculation since the days of Pythagoras. Several different views of the nature of mathematics have been considered: Realism - mathematics exists and is…