Related papers: Alan Dow
This is my contribution to Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday party. Happy Birthday Stephen!
Ken Wilson is remembered.
Biographical essay at the occasion of the first death anniversary of Manfred Bonitz
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.
In memoria of Vladimir Naumovich Gribov
In celebration of Professor Ron Doney's 80th birthday, we provide a summary of his academic career and contributions to probability theory, as one of the UK's leading probabilists for over 50 years. A version of this note also serves as an…
We discuss the legacy of Alan Turing and his impact on computability and analysis.
We throw a brief glance at Galois' life, on the occasion of his 200th anniversary (written in German).
This is, with minor modifications, a text read at the 114th Statistical Mechanics meeting, in honor of D.Ruelle and Y.Sinai, at Rutgers, Dec.13-15, 2015. It does not attempt to analyze, or not even just quote, all works of David Ruelle; I…
About Conway's surreal numbers: A letter to a friend (written in French). In memoriam John Horton Conway.
This article is a collection of several memories for a special issue of SIGMA devoted to Dmitry Borisovich Fuchs.
The paper dedicated to memory of Valery Anatolievich Senderov
A short biography of Hans Bethe.
Analytic concepts contribute to our understanding of randomness of reals via algorithmic tests. They also influence the interplay between randomness and lowness notions. We provide a survey, written on the occasion of Rod Downey's 60th…
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 article is based on a talk given at a one-day meeting in NUI, Maynooth on the Fourth of April, 2008, held to honour David Walsh and Richard Watson. It surveys joint work with the author.
This is a short tribute to Alexandr Alexandrov (1912--1999).
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…
I present some reminiscences, both personal and scientific, over a lifetime of admiration of, and friendship with, one of the Grandmasters of our subject.
Comment on ``On Random Scan Gibbs Samplers'' [arXiv:0808.3852]