Related papers: Robert V. Kohn (1953-2026)
Using a temporal version of the Copernican principle, Gott has proposed a statistical predictor of future longevity based on present age [J. R. Gott III, Nature 363, 315 (1993)] and applied the predictor to a variety of examples, including…
This is an English translation of the obituary notice by Beno Eckmann, appearing in Elemente der Mathematik 47.3 (1992) 118--122 (in German).
This is a memorial article for Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, who was one of the great pioneers of mathematical general relativity and of partial differential equations. Starting with her 1952 result on local existence of solutions of the vacuum…
Brief recollections by the author of how he interacted with Feynman and was influenced by him.
In remembrance of Professor Uffe Valentin Haagerup (1949--2015), as a brilliant mathematician, we review some aspects of his life, and his outstanding mathematical accomplishments.
This Comment has been withdrawn according to a mutual agreement between the authors of the original paper and the authors of this Comment.
The recollection of souvenirs on great theoretical physicist, addressed to wide physical audience on the occasion of Bogoliubov centenary. Contains four parts: 1. Personal impressions; 2. Joint work; 3. Bogoliubov cp. Landau and 4.…
This is an editorial paper presenting the meaning, history, and influence of quantum teleportation.
This is a historical article on J. C. Corbin, a nineteenth century mathematician and the founding president of the Historically Black University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. This version omits the figures that appeared in the published…
These are the extended lecture notes of my lecture about ``Linear Operators on Polynomials, $K$-Positivity Preserver, and their Generators''. The lecture was given at the University of Konstanz in the winter semester 2025/26.
This is a survey paper on several aspects of differential geometry for the last 30 years, especially in those areas related to non-linear analysis. It grew from a talk I gave on the occasion of seventieth anniversary of Chinese Mathematical…
A memorial to Prof. Hidekuni Hidekoshi, Kyoto University, Japan - an accelerator pioneer in Japan, teacher, mentor, friend, unassuming but knowing his accomplishments and worth, frugal but generous, enjoying life. Japanese contributions…
We argue that several claims of paper Phys. Rev. Lett 79, 1953 (1997), by Lu-Ming Duan and Guang-Can Guo, are questionable. In particular we stress that the environmental noise considered by the authors belongs to a very special class
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…
Professor Dr. Karl Dragutin Rakos passed away on October 31, 2011 one day before his 86th birthday. With that the Vienna astronomical community lost a valued researcher, university teacher and co-founder of modern astrophysical research at…
Recent measurements of kaon decays contributing to the determination of |V_us| are summarized, and up-to-date evaluations of |V_us|f+(0) and |V_us| are presented.
With this contribution we would like to remember Chandra M. R. Kintala who passed away in November 2009. We will give short overviews of his CV and his contributions to the field of theoretical and applied computer science and, given the…
William Kruskal (Bill) was a distinguished statistician who spent virtually his entire professional career at the University of Chicago, and who had a lasting impact on the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and on the field of statistics…
Brief recollections by the author about how his work with Kip Thorne influenced his career in physics.
Kenneth G. Wilson made deep and insightful contributions to statistical physics, particle physics, and related fields. He was also a helpful and thoughtful human being.