Related papers: John Keith Stuart McKay: 1939 - 2022
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 essay, originally published in the Sept 1990 Notices of the AMS, discusses problems of our mathematical education system that often stem from widespread misconceptions by well-meaning people of the process of learning mathematics. The…
This is an essay that considering the knowledge structure and language of a different nature, attempts to build on an explanation of the object of study and characteristics of the mathematical science. We end up with a learning cycle of…
This article is an invitation to read a famous text of Roger Ap{\'e}ry, "Math{\'e}matique constructive", published in the book "Penser les math{\'e}matiques: s{\'e}minaire de philosophie et math{\'e}matiques de l'{\'E}cole normale…
Contributed discussion to the paper of Drton and Plummer (2017), presented before the Royal Statistical Society on 5th October 2016.
The present volume is a Festschrift for Mike Keane, on the occasion of his 65th birthday on January 2, 2005. It contains 29 contributions by Mike's closest colleagues and friends, covering a broad range of topics in Dynamics and…
This paper is an enhanced version of a more than decade-older paper with a similar title. Many formulae involving both finite and infinite sums of digamma and polygamma functions up to quadratic order, few of which appear in standard…
Celebrating fifty years of collaboration and friendship with Chris Isham.
Dedekind sums have applications in quite a number of fields of mathematics. Therefore, their distribution has found considerable interest. This article gives a survey of several aspects of the distribution of these sums. In particular, it…
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…
These are the written discussions of the paper "Bayesian measures of model complexity and fit" by D. Spiegelhalter et al. (2002), following the discussions given at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society in Newcastle-upon-Tyne…
Discussion of ``The William Kruskal Legacy: 1919--2005'' by Stephen E. Fienberg, Stephen M. Stigler and Judith M. Tanur [arXiv:0710.5063]
Talk dedicated to the 110th anniversary of L.S.Pontryagin. Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
The classical McKay correspondence establishes an explicit link from the representation theory of a finite subgroup G of SU(2) and the geometry of the minimal resolution of the quotient of the affine plane by G. In this paper we discuss a…
A brief account of Maria Cunitz's book Urania Propitia, commemorating the bequest of a rare copy to the London Mathematical Society by Dr A.E.L. Davis in 2020.
Freeman J. Dyson, a brilliant theoretical physicist and a gifted mathematician, passed away on 28 February 2020 at the age of 96. A vignette of his outstanding contributions to physical sciences, ranging from the subject of quantum…
Through the classical umbral calculus, we provide a unifying syntax for single and multivariate $k$-statistics, polykays and multivariate polykays. From a combinatorial point of view, we revisit the theory as exposed by Stuart and Ord,…
This is the editor's preface to the special issue of Journal of Spectral Theory, in memory of Yuri Safarov.
This is a perspective on "k-stretchability of entanglement, and the duality of k-separability and k-producibility" by Szil\'ard Szalay, published in Quantum 3, 204 (2019).
Doob's essential contributions to Probability theory are discussed; this includes the main early results on martingale theory, Doob's $h$-transform, as well as a summary of Doob's three books. Finally, Doob's `stochastic triangle' is viewed…