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This paper has been withdrawn by the author. It will be posted on astro-ph once the proceedings of the 363rd Heraeus Seminar on Neutron Stars and Pulsars are ready.

We present an overview of some significant results of Thurston and their impact on mathematics. The final version of this paper will appear as Chapter 1 of the book "In the tradition of Thurston: Geometry and topology", edited by K. Ohshika…

We summarize our exploratory investigation into whether Machine Learning (ML) techniques applied to publicly available professional text can substantially augment strategic planning for astronomy. We find that an approach based on Latent…

This is a small contribution to the (September 15, 2019) Liber Amicorum Richard "Dick" Allen Askey. At the end a positivity conjecture related to the First and Second Borwein Conjectures is offered.

This is an expository paper (in Spanish) about the metric approximation of groups.

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).

Using group theoretic methods only, we prove the uniqueness of the smallest embedding cover of a profinite group, Problem 36.2.25 of Field Arithmetic, 4th edition.

This is a collection of teaching materials used in several Russian universities, schools, and mathematical circles. Most problems are chosen in such a way that in the course of the solution and discussion a reader learns important…

We discuss the significance of some interesting results by Barbara Rokowska about combinatorial constructions. Her interest in finite mathematics and number theory began with an embellishment and detailing of some work by Erdos. Rokowska…

Mathematical and astronomical achievements of the Islamic World during its golden era are briefly exposed. Thie article is based on the invited talk delivered remotely at the ICRANet-Isfahan Astronomical meeting, November 2-5, 2021, which,…

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors after discussing its content with Dr. J. Madsen.

This article (which appeared with illustrations) was the astrophysics/cosmology contribution to the historical series ``Pathways of Discovery'' which appeared in ``Science'' during last year.

In a recent paper, Mazucheli et al. (2019) introduced the unit-Gompertz (UG) distribution and studied some of its properties. In a complementary work, Anis and De (2020) corrected some of the subtle errors in the original paper and studied…

These notes were originally prepared as additional material for the lessons I have given at the summer school Gamma-ray Astrophysics and Multifrequency: Data analysis and astroparticle problems, organized by the Department of Physics of the…

Recent article "Revisiting the 2PN Pericenter Precession in View of Possible Future Measurements" published by Iorio (Universe, 2020) argues that calculations of the secular 2PN precession of the orbital pericenter of a binary system…

This paper has been withdrawn by the author, due an error in the proof of Proposion 2.13.

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.

This is an expository article for Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics on the subject in the title. Comments/corrections welcome.

This is an expository article on the Poisson binomial distribution. We review lesser known results and recent progress on this topic, including geometry of polynomials and distribution learning. We also provide examples to illustrate the…

Editorial of a special issue on dark matter & modified gravity, distributed across the journals Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Published version of the open access…