Related papers: Misha Shubin. 1944 -- 2020
Schur multipliers were introduced by Schur in the early 20th century and have since then found a considerable number of applications in Analysis and enjoyed an intensive development. Apart from the beauty of the subject in itself, sources…
Presents a history of the evolution of the author's ideas on program-size complexity and its applications to metamathematics over the course of more than four decades. Includes suggestions for further work.
According to Hoffman's (2,3)-conjecture, the so-called double shuffle relations should imply that every multiple zeta value should express effectively in terms of multizetas whose entries are equal to either 2 or 3, with some explicitly…
The paper is written for Kluwer's Encyclopaedia of Mathematics.
Selected stories about the life of A. L. Onishchik, and a review of his contribution to the classification of non-split supermanifolds, in particular, supercurves a.k.a. superstrings; his editorial and educational work. A brief overview of…
This is a biographical sketch and tribute to Abraham Robinson (1918-1974) on the 95th anniversary of his birth with a short discussion of the place of nonstandard analysis in the present-day mathematics.
Errico Presutti was a leading figure in mathematical physics and an important contributor to rigorous results in statistical mechanics. Due to his strong scientific personality and human qualities, there are many who remember Errico…
Lev T. Kuzin (1928--1997) is one of the founders of modern cybernetics and information science in Russia. He was awarded and honored the USSR State Prize for inspiring vision into the future of technical cybernetics and his invention and…
This paper describes briefly history and current state of the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, the biggest research mathematical institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences located east to Ural mountains.
This article reviews the life and death of a scientific theory.
An account of the careers of the five women who completed a doctorate in mathematics in France before 1960 and became internationally known scientists, followed by a more general description of the place of women on the mathematical scene…
We study the integral transform which appeared in a different form in Akhiezer's textbook "Lectures on Integral Transforms".
A comprehensive review on Cook's contribution in the theory of NP-Completeness with relations to modern mathematics.
This dissertation contributes to mathematical and algorithmic problems that arise in the analysis of network and biological data.
This paper has been withdrawn by the author. The most updated version can be accessed by arXiv:1806.07290.
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…
The Yuri Golfand Memorial Volume commemorates Thirty Years of Supersymmetry. It will be published soon by World Scientific. The participants of the project are: D. Brace, L. Brink, S. Deser, G. Dvali, B. Feng, D. Freedman, G.-L. Gervais, G.…
This article is a contribution to a Festschrift for S. Helgason. After a biographical sketch, we survey some of his research on several topics in geometric and harmonic analysis during his long and influential career. While not an…
I review Stanley Mandelstam's many contributions to particle physics, quantum field theory and string theory covering the years 1955 through 1980. His more recent work will be reviewed by Nathan Berkovits. This is my contribution to the…
This is an expanded version of one of the Lectures in memory of Lars Ahlfors in Haifa in 1996. Some mistakes are corrected and references added. It contains a survey of his work on meromorphic functions and related topics written in…