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Talk dedicated to the 110th anniversary of L.S.Pontryagin. Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
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In remembrance of Professor Uffe Valentin Haagerup (1949--2015), as a brilliant mathematician, we review some aspects of his life, and his outstanding mathematical accomplishments.
2023 year marks the hundredth birth anniversary of prominent Russian mathematician and thinker Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (1923-2017). The article presents a selection of quotations from various works of him, devoted to the future of…
In memoria of Vladimir Naumovich Gribov
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Biographical essay at the occasion of the first death anniversary of Manfred Bonitz
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.
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The paper dedicated to memory of Valery Anatolievich Senderov
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This is the editor's preface to the special issue of Journal of Spectral Theory, in memory of Yuri Safarov.
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We consider the fundamental question of learnability of a hypotheses class in the supervised learning setting and in the general learning setting introduced by Vladimir Vapnik. We survey classic results characterizing learnability in term…
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Karl Stein was one of the pillars of the German school of several complex variables. In this article his scientific contributions are outlined in historical perspective.
The article is a report on the biography and achievements of Ernest Borisovich Vinberg, an outstanding Russian mathematician, who passed away in Moscow on May 12, 2020. We discuss his contributions to various areas of mathematics such as…
The article describes the biography and manifold contributions to research in mathematics of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Shubin.