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Lecture notes on Finsler Geometry

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.…

This paper is a commentary and a reading guide to three papers by Herbert Busemann, \"Uber die Geometrien, in denen die "Kreise mit unendlichem Radius" die k\"urzesten Linien sind." (On the geometries where circles of infinite radius are…

A personal recollection of events that preceded the construction of Supergravity and of some subsequent developments.

This article concerns the life and work of Lucjan Emil B\"ottcher (1872-1937), a Polish mathematician. Besides biographical and bibliographical information, it contains a survey of his mathematical achievements in the theory of iteration…

These are reminiscences of my interactions with Julian Schwinger from 1968 through 1981 and beyond.

Gisbert Winnewisser's astronomical career was practically coextensive with the whole development of molecular radio astronomy. Here I would like to pick out a few of his many contributions, which I, personally, find particularly interesting…

This article is a brief Retrospective on the life and work of Robert W. Zwanzig, who formulated nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and who passed away in May of this year.

This is a translation of Kronecker's "\"Uber die Gleichungen f\"unften Grades" (On equations of fifth degree), excerpted from the monthly report to the Berlin Academy of Sciences from June 1861.

Some aspects of multidimensional soliton geometry are considered.

This Special Issue of Biomolecules, commissioned in honor of Dr. Philip E. Bourne, focuses on a new field of biomolecular data science. In this brief retrospective, we consider the arc of Bourne's 40-year scientific and professional career,…

This is an introduction to the algebraic aspect of Teichm\"uller dynamics, with a focus on its interplay with the geometry of moduli spaces of curves as well as recent advances in the field.

This article is a contribution to a Festschrift for S. Helgason. After a biographical sketch, we survey some of his research on several topics in geometric and harmonic analysis during his long and influential career. While not an…

We revisit and further explore the celebrated Combinatorial Nullstellens\"atze of N. Alon in several different directions.

A recollection of special moments spent with Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich and with the scientists of Soviet Union and abroad.

This is an introduction of the volume of the journal Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Caroalinae dedicated to the memory of V\v{e}ra Trnkov\'a}.

We survey selected developments in the metric geometry of the space of K\"ahler metrics, emphasizing results from the past decade, highlighting open problems along the way.

I review and discuss the contributions of Aron Bernstein to the field of chiral dynamics.

This paper has been translated into German and will be included, in a somewhat altered form, in a book Sterne der Zertrummerung, Marietta Blau, Wegbereiterin der Moderne Teilchenphysik, Brigitte Strohmaier and Robert Rosner, eds., Boehlau…

The early Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer published a book on geometry a few years before he died. This was intended to be a guide for young craftsmen and artists giving them both practical and mathematical tools for their trade. In the…