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Recollections by the author about how his interactions with John Wheeler influenced his career in physics.
a 10-page biography of Raoul Bott followed by a 25-page discussion of his major papers
Review/essay of Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann.
Brief recollections by the author of how he interacted with Feynman and was influenced by him.
This is a brief account of the life and work of G\"oran Lindblad.
This document contains a description of several of my papers, including remarks on history and connection with subsequent work. It also contains some new results and conjectures.
A short biography of Hans Bethe.
This article is a multiauthored portrait of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra that consists of testimonials written by several friends, colleagues, and students of his. It provides unique insights into his personality, working style and habits, and his…
An obituary of J.R. Dorfman. The focus is on his scientific career and on his many important publications.
This is an attempt to illustrate the glorious history of logical foundations and to discuss the uncertain future.
Selected examples of possible origins of power-law distributions are presented.
This is a write-up of introductory remarks that I made at the UIC conference in honor of Lawrence Ein's 60th birthday. It presents an informal survey of some of Ein's work, interspersed with stories and reminiscences.
This talk presents a short review of David Brink's most important achievements and of my own experience working with him.
Some of the theoretical motivations and experimental developments leading to the discovery of charm are recalled.
A brief description is given of the life and influence on relativity theory of Professor J. L. Synge accompanied by some technical examples to illustrate his style of work.
Academic biography of Karl Weierstrass, his basic works, influence of his doctrine on the development of mathematics.
Brief recollections by the author about how his work with Kip Thorne influenced his career in physics.
I present some reminiscences, both personal and scientific, over a lifetime of admiration of, and friendship with, one of the Grandmasters of our subject.
In this note I have tried to rewrite four famous works of Nash in a more modern language while adhering as much as possible to the original arguments.
This is a brief introduction to the geometric aspects of aperiodic tiling and the collaboration of John Conway and the author in the decade 1990-2000.