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These are reminiscences of V. P. Havin (1933--2015), founder of the modern St. Petersburg analysis school.
The Life of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920), the renowned Indian Mathematician, is presented, in this the first of a series of lectures, delivered at the Indian Institute for Advanced Study, Shimla.
The following is an exposition of a course of algebra that Prof. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zykov (1922-2013) distributed among the participants of his seminar in graph theory not far away from Odessa, Ukraine, on September, 1991. It is a…
The following notes are intended to make a small digression on the topics mentioned in the title of the same, since these were not addressed in the past tribute by the Institute of Physics of the UdeA. We believe more than platitude try to…
We give a brief outline of biography, review 3 of his works on the use of confluent hypergeometric function for description asymmetric relaxation spectrum and provide an overview of the Soviet works of the past (20th) that are in tune with…
The first half of the 20th century in the history of Russian mathematics is striking with a combination of dramaticism, sometimes a tragedy, and outstanding achievements. The paper is devoted to St. Petersburg-Leningrad Mathematical School.…
Hans Grauert died in September of 2011. This article reviews his life in mathematics and recalls some detail his major accomplishments.
$\texttt{Randomstrasse101}$ is a blog dedicated to Open Problems in Mathematics, with a focus on Probability Theory, Computation, Combinatorics, Statistics, and related topics. This manuscript serves as a stable record of the Open Problems…
A working mathematician's summary of many results on the derived category, perverse sheaves, and vanishing cycles. This is the August 2025 version, with a completely revised section on vanishing cycles.
We survey emigration of mathematicians from Europe, before and during WWII, to Russia.
This editorial summarizes selected key contributions of Prof. Stephen Grossberg and describes the papers in this 80th birthday special issue in his honor. His productivity, creativity, and vision would each be enough to mark a scientist of…
Many talks at the 16th Lomonosov Conference, dedicated to Bruno Pontecorvo, detail the remarkable progress in neutrino physics over the last two decades. In this paper, I give an opinionated, and therefore likely inaccurate, review of the…
An overview on Masaki Kashiwara's mathematical work since 1970
The 75th anniversary of Turing's seminal paper and his centennial year anniversary occur in 2011 and 2012, respectively. It is natural to review and assess Turing's contributions in diverse fields in the light of new developments that his…
Lev T. Kuzin (1928--1997) is one of the founders of modern cybernetics and information science in Russia. He was awarded and honored the USSR State Prize for inspiring vision into the future of technical cybernetics and his invention and…
This paper, to appear in the ``Notices of the AMS'' 2024, is a modified version of a text already appeared in this journal, Feb. 2007 after a first publication in French, in ``La Gazette des Math{\'e}maticiens'' 97 (2003) on the occasion of…
This is a homage to the memory of Prof. Steven Weinberg who passed away on 23 July 2021.
Boris R. Vainberg was born on March 17, 1938, in Moscow. His father was a Lead Engineer in an aviation design institute. His mother was a homemaker. From early age, Boris was attracted to mathematics and spent much of his time at home and…
Some Goedel centenary reflections on whether incompleteness is really serious, and whether mathematics should be done somewhat differently, based on using algorithmic complexity measured in bits of information. [Enriques lecture given…
What are the effects of authoritarian regimes on scholarly research in economics? And how might economic theory survive ideological pressures? The article addresses these questions by focusing on the mathematization of economics over the…