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I published an interview of Leo Breiman in Statistical Science [Olshen (2001)], and also the solution to a problem concerning almost sure convergence of binary tree-structured estimators in regression [Olshen (2007)]. The former summarized…
An obituary of J.R. Dorfman. The focus is on his scientific career and on his many important publications.
This is a short obituary of Saunders Mac Lane (1909--2005).
This is a brief account of the life and work of G\"oran Lindblad.
This is a short tribute to Alexandr Alexandrov (1912--1999).
Contributed paper to the Conference "Francesco's Legacy: Star Formation in Space and Time", in memory of Francesco Palla (1954-2016), held in Florence, June 5-9, 2017
As it is well-known, the year 2005 has been the centenary of the "annus mirabilis" (1905) during which Albert Einstein published four fundamental papers of his. But already in 1979, for the centenary of Einstein's birth, the world…
It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the passing of Ning Cai, a luminary whose pioneering spirit illuminated the realms of network coding and beyond. On May 25, 2023, at the age of 75, Prof. Cai bid farewell, leaving behind a profound…
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.
In this paper we present a panoramic view of the main scientific articles published by Ettore Majorana, the brightest Italian theoretical physicist of the XX century (actually, Enrico Fermi regarded him as the brighest in the world of his…
The article is dedicated to thye memory of a distinguished mathematician Professor Misha Shubin
In the first part of this paper I will describe my work together with Lars and in the second part I will give a look at some of Lars's oldest papers.
My personal recollections are presented regarding my interactions with Steven Weinberg and the impact he had in my career from when I was his graduate student until the present.
Leo Breiman was a highly creative, influential researcher with a down-to-earth personal style and an insistence on working on important real world problems and producing useful solutions. This paper is a short review of Breiman's extensive…
I present some reminiscences, both personal and scientific, over a lifetime of admiration of, and friendship with, one of the Grandmasters of our subject.
On 28th and 29th of January 2013 we held an international meeting in Zielona G\'ora (Poland) honouring the first anniversary of premature passing away^(1) of Professor Roman Juszkiewicz. We have celebrated an opening of a new seminar room…
The aim of this article has been to put together various aspects of the personality of the Italian mathematician Francesco Severi: the mathematical, the political, the institutional, academic and philosophical one. We tried in particular to…
A homage to the life and mathematics of John K. S. McKay. Obituary for the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society.
This is the editor's preface to the special issue of Journal of Spectral Theory, in memory of Yuri Safarov.
A collection of selected papers of Gino Fano, containing most of his research papers in Italian, is now available on line at the site of Biblioteca Digitale Italiana di Matematica. The address is: http://www.bdim.eu/ The realization of this…