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The purpose of this text is twofold. First we discuss some divisor problems involving Paul Erd\H os (1913-1996), whose centenary of birth is this year. In the second part some recent results on divisor problems are discussed, and their…
The Life of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920), the renowned Indian Mathematician, is presented, in this the first of a series of lectures, delivered at the Indian Institute for Advanced Study, Shimla.
Robert F. Coleman, a highly original mathematician who has had a profound influence on modern number theory and arithmetic geometry, passed away on March 24, 2014. We give an overview of his life and career, including some of his major…
In this paper, we present the work of international mathematical associationism carried out by the mathematician from Navarra (Spain) Zoel Garc\'ia de Galdeano (1846-1924) during over 30 years. Garcia de Galdeano was a member of many of the…
The 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian mathematician Vladimir Andreevich Steklov falls on January 9, 2014. In this paper (it is a part of survey to be published in January 2014), we describe advances in one of several…
The author describes some of his experiences as a mathematician cooperating with diabetes specialists.
The life of Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk was short (20.05.1913 -- 14.12.1966). But the impact of his personality and his works on physics and physicists is remarkable. The talk describes the biography of I.Ya. Pomeranchuk, his major…
A Thesis about Euler discussing the possibilities and limits of his method of work in Mathematics.
The recollection of souvenirs on great theoretical physicist, addressed to wide physical audience on the occasion of Bogoliubov centenary. Contains four parts: 1. Personal impressions; 2. Joint work; 3. Bogoliubov cp. Landau and 4.…
In memory of the famous physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, whereof is just occurred the centenary anniversary of the birth and the twentieth anniversary of the death, this paper traces the scientific and human adventure of the italian scientist,…
In this article, we use the 75th anniversary of the publication of \emph{Introducci\'on al An\'alisis Matem\'atico} by Mario O. Gonz\'alez to study its importance. Besides, we give new biographical data from his author in the previous years…
In November 2014 Alexander Grothendieck passed away at the age of 86. There is no doubt that he was one of the greatest and most innovative mathematicians of the 20th century. After a bitter childhood, his meteoric ascent started in the…
Some Goedel centenary reflections on whether incompleteness is really serious, and whether mathematics should be done somewhat differently, based on using algorithmic complexity measured in bits of information. [Enriques lecture given…
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.
Given a Banach Algebra $A$ and $a\in A$, several relations among the Drazin spectrum of $a$ and the Drazin spectra of the multiplication operators $L_a$ and $R_a$ will be stated. The Banach space operator case will be also examined.…
This is a short tribute to Alexandr Alexandrov (1912--1999).
Egbert Brieskorn died on July 11, 2013, a few days after his 77th birthday. He was an impressive personality who has left a lasting impression on all who knew him, whether inside or outside of mathematics. Brieskorn was a great…
This book presents a personal account of the mathematics and metamathematics of the 20th century leading up to the discovery of the halting probability Omega. The emphasis is on history of ideas and philosophical implications.
The two of us have shared a fascination with James Victor Uspensky's 1937 textbook $Introduction \, to \, Mathematical \, Probability$ ever since our graduate student days: it contains many interesting results not found in other books on…
An examination of George Boole's mysterious use of the Algebra of Numbers to create an Algebra of Logic, and subsequent research connected to this.