Related papers: Ken Wilson -- The Early Years

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

This is a write-up of introductory remarks that I made at the UIC conference in honor of Lawrence Ein's 60th birthday. It presents an informal survey of some of Ein's work, interspersed with stories and reminiscences.

I recount some of my memories of the early development of quantum computation, including the discovery of the factoring algorithm, of error correcting codes, and of fault tolerance.

Equivalencies of many basic elementary inequalities are given

A very brief and popular account of the time machine problem.

``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up re-membranes of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought''. (Apologies to William Shakespeare)

Brief recollections of how the author interacted with Steve Weinberg over issues in quantum mevhanics

We throw a brief glance at Galois' life, on the occasion of his 200th anniversary (written in German).

This paper discusses the formulations of the past in quantum mechanics.

A brief account of interesting moments in the genesis of the quark paradigm is presented.

I present and discuss a puzzle about wizards invented by John H. Conway.

The earlier history of two--photon physics is reviewed.

This article gives a sketch of teachers and colleagues who have had strong influence on my becoming a particle physicist.

This paper is a greatly expanded version of a talk I gave in April 2009 at KunenFest. It describes Ken's work in algebra, particularly using automated deduction tools.

Remarks at the Irving Kaplansky Memorial about a collaboration during the early period of the renewal of contacts between mathematicians and theoretical physicists.

This is a retrospective of some of William Arveson's many contributions to operator theory and operator algebras.

We discuss the legacy of Alan Turing and his impact on computability and analysis.

Biographical essay at the occasion of the first death anniversary of Manfred Bonitz

About Conway's surreal numbers: A letter to a friend (written in French). In memoriam John Horton Conway.

Invited contribution to the collective book "The Birth of String Theory"