Related papers: In memoriam J. Robert Dorfman
The author reflects on the significance of Einstein's brain and the search for what makes it distinct.
In the present article we provide a brief introduction to the Life and Works of Indian astronomer R. G. Chandra.
This is an introduction to Exactly Solved Models and Beyond, a special issue collection of articles published in J. Phys. A in honour of R J Baxter's 75th birthday.
The article presents the main milestones of the science and technology biography of Ivan Edward Sutherland. The influence of the family and the school on the development of its research competencies is shown, and little-known biographical…
This is the preface to a special issue of the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry dedicated to an outstanding physical organic chemist, mentor and friend, Barry Carpenter on the occasion of his official retirement.
This is a homage to the memory of Prof. Steven Weinberg who passed away on 23 July 2021.
This is a preface to Fields, Gravity, Strings and Beyond, a special issue collection of articles published in J. Phys. A in memory of Stanley Deser.
This study use some philological and historical means in order to understand Fermat's way of thinking.
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…
A didactic introduction to current thinking on some aspects of the solar dynamo is given for geophysicists and planetary scientists.
Preliminary version of Chapter 2 in the book "Encyclopedia of Special functions: The Askey-Bateman Project, Vol. 2: Multivariate special functions", T. H. Koornwinder and J. V. Stokman (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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…
The paper surveys the history and state-of-the-art of the study of Jordan homomorphisms.
Dedication to my untimely departed friends, Dmitry Igorevich Diakonov, Viktor Yur'evich Petrov and Maxim Vladimirovich Polyakov.
Recollections of the Austrian geometer Heinrich Brauner (in German).
History of Neutrino Physics is revied with special emphasis on anecdotal events often neglected.
Mathematical population genetics is only one of Kingman's many research interests. Nevertheless, his contribution to this field has been crucial, and moved it in several important new directions. Here we outline some aspects of his work…
The symposium has shown the dynamism of this rapidly evolving discipline. I shall concentrate here on some highlights and some complementary informations. I conclude on open questions with some perspectives on solar & stellar activity and…
We review the life and remarkable contributions to Physics of Gregor Wentzel.
We discuss the paper "Citation Statistics" by the Joint Committee on Quantitative Assessment of Research [arXiv:0910.3529]. In particular, we focus on a necessary feature of "good" measures for ranking scientific authors: that good measures…