Related papers: My Encounters --- as a Physicist --- with Mathemat…
Opening Lecture at the Second Rencontres du Vietnam, October 21-28, 1995.
This article is an extended version of the article published by EDP Sciences at the occasion of the 150 years of the ``Soci\'et\'e Fran\c{c}aise de Physique'' (in French)
As a Physicist and a Chemist , we have had the opportunity to teach Algebra in our engineering school in Aix-en-Provence. The article deals with the interactions made between Physics, Chemistry and Algebra.
Talk given at the 6th Philosophy-and-Physics-Workshop ``Epistemological Aspects of the Role of Mathematics in Physical Science'', FEST, Heidelberg, Feb. 1993
Invited contribution to the inaugural issue of {\em Physics Educator.}
Lectures presented at the 42nd Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 1993.
Recently delivered lectures on Self-Referential Mathematics, [2], at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, are briefly presented. Comments follow on the subject, as well as on Inconsistent…
These are notes to accompany four lectures that I gave at the School on Additive Combinatorics, held in Montreal, Quebec between March 30th and April 5th 2006. My aim is to introduce ``quadratic fourier analysis'' in so far as we understand…
On the occasion of the celebration of the first half-century of Yang--Mills theories, I am contributing a personal recollection of how the subject, in its early times, confronted physical reality, that is, its "phenomenology". There is…
Remarks at the Irving Kaplansky Memorial about a collaboration during the early period of the renewal of contacts between mathematicians and theoretical physicists.
This year, 2010, is the 40th anniversary of Physical Review C as a separate section of the Physical Review. We write here with a double purpose: first, to describe how PRC has evolved and to explore how this evolution has reflected changes…
We present some episodes from the history of interactions between geometry and physics over the past century.
The author describes some of his experiences as a mathematician cooperating with diabetes specialists.
A short autobiography written for a centennial party.
These lecture notes are based on a set of six lectures that I gave in Edinburgh in 2008/2009 and they cover some topics in the interface between Geometry and Physics. They involve some unsolved problems and conjectures and I hope they may…
The goal of this introduction to symmetries is to present some general ideas, to outline the fundamental concepts and results of the subject and to situate a bit the following lectures of this school. [These notes represent the write-up of…
The present issue of the series <<Modern Problems in Mathematical Physics>> represents the Proceedings of the Students Training Contest Olympiad in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics and includes the statements and the solutions of the…
Lecture notes given at the summer school ``Applications of random matrices to physics", Les Houches, June 2004.
This evocative essay focuses on mathematical activities witnessed by the author along 1962-64 at IMPA. The list of research problems proposed in September 1962 by Mauricio Peixoto at the Seminar on the Qualitative Theory of Differential…
Invited talk at the CORR98 meeting on Correlations, M\'atrah\'aza, June 1998, to appear in the proceedings of the meeting in World Scientific. This talk is dedicated to the memory of Peter Carruthers.