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This is a short obituary of Saunders Mac Lane (1909--2005).
The article describes the biography and manifold contributions to research in mathematics of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Shubin.
This brief text is in memory of Professor Ivan Kupka. It presents his vision, scientific life, his interest in mathematics and our join collaboration.
This article is a reflection on the mathematical legacy of Professor Petr Simon.
We describe the development of the mathematics of Helmut R. Salzmann (3. 11. 1930 -- 8. 3. 2022) and the main difficulties he was facing, documenting his lifelong productivity and his far reaching influence. We include a comprehensive…
Biography and publications list for Donald Arthur Preece, who died on 6 January 2014, who made many contributions in statistics (experimental design) and in combinatorics.
The article is dedicated to thye memory of a distinguished mathematician Professor Misha Shubin
Introduction for a special issue of Physica E dedicated to the memory of Markus B\"uttiker.
This article summarizes some of the most important scientific contributions of Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019). (Invited article for Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences.)
This contribution to the book in honour of J.S. Bell will probably differ from the remaining ones, in particular since only a part of it will be devoted to specific technical arguments. In fact I have considered appropriate to share with…
This is a slightly edited translation of a paper in Dutch which appeared in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (5) 25 (2024), No.2, 87-90 on the occasion of I.G. Macdonald's death in 2023, and aimed at a very broad mathematical audience. First we…
A comprehensive review on Cook's contribution in the theory of NP-Completeness with relations to modern mathematics.
About Conway's surreal numbers: A letter to a friend (written in French). In memoriam John Horton Conway.
In the article we give an appreciation of Edward Nelson's multifaceted contribution to mathematics, and particularly to foundational theories of infinitesimals.
Hans Grauert died in September of 2011. This article reviews his life in mathematics and recalls some detail his major accomplishments.
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.
This article represents a personal tribute to Richard Askey together with a new look at some of his favorite integrals, including the Cauchy beta integral. The article also provides some new multidimensional extensions of Cauchy's beta…
The mathematical achievements of Harry Kesten since the mid-1950s have revolutionized probability theory as a subject in its own right and in its associations with aspects of algebra, analysis, geometry, and statistical physics. Through his…
In this article, we are interested in the life and scientific work of the Belgian mathematician Paul Mansion. The year 2019 marks the centenary of his passing. We bring some new insights into Paul Mansion's work thanks to his scientific…
In this paper I shall try to sketch some typical aspects of Erich Lehmann's contributions to statistics through his research, his teaching, his service to the profession and his personality.