Related papers: Erinnerungen an Heinrich Brauner (1928--1990)
We review the life and remarkable contributions to Physics of Gregor Wentzel.
A brief remembrance of some aspects of the author's scientific interaction with Stephen Hawking. A contribution to Physics Today's March 14, 2018 web page in which Stephen Hawking is remembered by his colleagues.
This is a survey article concerning applications of Hilbert's metric in the analysis and dynamics of linear and nonlinear mappings on cones. It will appear as a chapter in the "Handbook of Hilbert geometry", ed. G. Besson, A. Papadopoulos…
The original Schrodinger's paper is translated and annotated in honour of the 70-th anniversary of his Uncertainty Relation [published also in: Bulg. Journal of Physics,vol.26,no.5/6 (1999) pp.193-203]. In the annotation it is shown that…
Schroedinger's famous quadruple of factorizations of the hypergeometric equation is archived here
A portrait of Kurt Goedel with emphasis on his work on relativity theory and idealistic philosophy.
An obituary for Alexander Gordon which will appear in the Journal of Spectral Theory
Obituary for Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut Karzel, who passed away on June 22, 2021, at the age of 93.
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…
I published an interview of Leo Breiman in Statistical Science [Olshen (2001)], and also the solution to a problem concerning almost sure convergence of binary tree-structured estimators in regression [Olshen (2007)]. The former summarized…
Discussion on "Brownian distance covariance" by G\'{a}bor J. Sz\'{e}kely and Maria L. Rizzo [arXiv:1010.0297]
Discussion on "Brownian distance covariance" by G\'{a}bor J. Sz\'{e}kely and Maria L. Rizzo [arXiv:1010.0297]
Discussion on "Brownian distance covariance" by G\'{a}bor J. Sz\'{e}kely and Maria L. Rizzo [arXiv:1010.0297]
A brief review of Heisenberg's life and work: participating in the youth movement in the aftermath of World War I, creating quantum mechanics, conflict with "deutsche Physik", involvement in "Hitler's Uranium Project", last illusions.…
About Conway's surreal numbers: A letter to a friend (written in French). In memoriam John Horton Conway.
In commemoration of the fifth anniversary since Nino Boccara's departure, this article offers some personal recollections and provides insight into his life and accomplishments. Detailed bibliography of his works is included together with…
In this brief essay we succinctly comment on the historical origin of Hilbert geometry. In particular, we give a summary of the letter in which David Hilbert informs his friend and colleague Felix Klein about his discovery of this geometry.…
A focused modernization of Sophus Lie's brilliant writings about the foundations of geometry that every contemporary geometer should have at least once a look at. Translated, updated, commented.
Editor's Note: An English translation of Wilhelm Weber's 1878 paper "Ueber die Energie der Wechselwirkung", [Web78b]. This work is an excerpt from Weber's seventh major Memoir on Electrodynamic Measurements, "Elektrodynamische…
Brief recollections of two giants of physics, their origins, similarities and differences.