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This part of the talk aims to present briefly the biodata and the exceptional career of Paco Yndurain who left us suddenly in June 2008. The scientific part: Light Scalar Mesons in QCD is published in the proceedings of QCD 08 (Montpellier…
The paper is devoted to the contribution in the Probability Theory of the well-known Soviet mathematician Alexander Yakovlevich Khintchine (1894-1959). Several of his results are described, in particular those fundamental results on the…
Boris Venkov passed away on November 10 2011 just 5 days before his 77th birthday. This article gives a short survey of the mathematical work of Boris Venkov in this direction.
This article reviews recent work on the Kac master equation and its low dimensional counterpart, the Kac equation.
The article retraces major events and milestones in the mutual influences between mathematical logic and computer science since the 1950s.
The paper is an introduction to intuitionistic mathematics.
An improved (streamlined and extended) version of this paper is available as math.RA/0203010, which however omits some details. We recommend the later version unless details are essential.
We discuss the scientific contributions of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, his opinions and his legacy.
Review of Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers (Oxford University Press, 2020).
In this note we re-examine the analysis of the paper "On the martingale property of stochastic exponentials" by B. Wong and C.C. Heyde, Journal of Applied Probability, 41(3):654-664, 2004. Some counterexamples are presented and alternative…
An overview is presented about old and recent methods to compute the $K\to \pi \pi$ decay amplitude.
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…
The results of this paper were already known.
I was lucky to meet (and even cooperate at some extent) with Israel M. Gelfand, and tried to write down (mainly in 2003-2013) my recollections about his work style and lessons I learned from him about teaching and writing mathematics…
Discussion of ``The William Kruskal Legacy: 1919--2005'' by Stephen E. Fienberg, Stephen M. Stigler and Judith M. Tanur [arXiv:0710.5063]
In the Forum section of the November, 1993 Notices of the American Mathematical Society, John Franks discussed the electronic journal of the future. Since then, the New York Journal of Mathematics, the first electronic general mathematics…
This is a position paper written as an introduction to the special volume on quantum algorithms I edited for the journal Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (Volume 20 - Special Issue 06 (Quantum Algorithms), 2010).
We dedicate this to the life and work of Robin Hudson -- a mathematical physicist who developed the peerless quantum stochastic calculus, but who also inspired generations of researchers with both his intellect and wit.
Based at a talk given at the Kato Centennial Symposium in Sept. 2017, this article discusses the scientific life and some of the scientific work of T. Kato.
A brief overview of publications in approximation theory of functions known to the author and connected with scientific publications by V.~K.~Dzyadyk (1919--1998).