Related papers: Remembering Victor Petrovich Havin
This is a former PhD student's take on his teacher's scientific philosophy. I describe a set of 'principles' that I believe are conducive to good applied mathematics, and that I have learnt myself from observing Hans van Duijn in action.
Professor Dr. Karl Dragutin Rakos passed away on October 31, 2011 one day before his 86th birthday. With that the Vienna astronomical community lost a valued researcher, university teacher and co-founder of modern astrophysical research at…
We present some aspects of the work and personality of Halton Christian Arp (1927-2013).
We explore the potential of Simon Stevin's numbers, obscured by shifting foundational biases and by 19th century developments in the arithmetisation of analysis.
The integration of the history and philosophy of statistics was initiated at least by Hacking (1975) and advanced by Hacking (1990), Mayo (1996), and Zabell (2005), but it has not received sustained follow-up. Yet such integration is more…
This note is written for a book dedicated to outstanding St-Petersburg mathematicians and timed to the ICM-2022 in St-Petersburg. In accordance with the plan of ICM-organizers, we try to tell about one of the most prominent Rokhlin's…
This is a retrospective of some of William Arveson's many contributions to operator theory and operator algebras.
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.
The process launched by Lobachevsky. The movement of the Kazan school of geometry towards physics. Personal memories of Alexei Zinovievich Petrov, the great Kazan geometer and theoretical physicist, who became the Author's Guiding Star.…
The history of the very first mathematical contests for high school students is discussed. The main body of the article is dedicated to the mathematical and scientific contests held in imperial Russia in the XIX century. More specifically,…
This is a brief overview of the life of Leonid Kantorovich (1912--1986) and his contribution to the fields of linear programming and ordered vector spaces.
A.V. Usova (1921-2014) has always been one of the leading figures in Russian physics education. Her theory of physics concept formation was formulated during the 1970s and the 1980s and directly influenced the process of physics education…
This is a tribute to honor Stefan U. Egelhaaf (1963-2023), a pioneer in experimental soft condensed matter physics.
In May 2022 ICRANet organized the Workshop dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Professor Ruffini. This paper is based on the talk delivered at the meeting. Professor Ruffini was well known for Soviet scientific community not only due to…
During the Foundations of Future Communication Systems (FFCS) conference in Braunschweig, a dedicated memorial session was held in honor of Dr. Vladimir (Volodya) Sidorenko (1949-2025). The session, chaired by Minglai Cai, brought together…
Vision Transformers have excelled in computer vision but their attention mechanisms operate independently across layers, limiting information flow and feature learning. We propose an effective cross-layer attention propagation method that…
Professor Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century, best known for his doctrine of falsifiability. His axiomatic formulation of probability, however, is unknown to current…
In his generalization of reductive homogeneous spaces, Lev Sabinin showed that Lie's fundamental theorems hold for local analytic hyporeductive and pseudoreductive loops. We derive Sabinin's results in an algebraic context in terms of…
This is a historical article on J. C. Corbin, a nineteenth century mathematician and the founding president of the Historically Black University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. This version omits the figures that appeared in the published…
This paper is dedicated to Oleg Viro on his 60-th birthday. The paper is about Khovanov homology and its relationships with statistical mechanics models such as the Ising model and the Potts model. We give a relatively self-contained…