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We provide an introduction to mathematical theory of scattering resonances and survey some recent results.

This is an article on the interaction between topology and physics which will appear in 1998 in a book called: A History of Topology, edited by Ioan James and published by Elsevier-North Holland.

We survey various origins and expressions for the quantum potential with some new observations.

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This article is a contribution to a Festschrift for S. Helgason. After a biographical sketch, we survey some of his research on several topics in geometric and harmonic analysis during his long and influential career. While not an…

The present paper presents some reflections of the author on divergent series and their role and place in mathematics over the centuries. The point of view presented here is limited to differential equations and dynamical systems.

A few recollections and afterthoughts on the development of the string picture of fundamental interactions out of the S-matrix program.

At the end of the five years of work in our GeoDiverCity program, we brought together a diversity of authors from different disciplines. Each person was invited to present an important question about the theories and models of urbanization.…

We characterize, by easily verifiable properties, abstract ternary relations isomorphic to the causal betweenness introduced by Hans Reichenbach.

This is a review article on the development of the probe and enclosure methods from past to present, focused on their central ideas together with various applications.

The goal of this introductory survey is to present the major developments of algorithmic randomness with an eye toward its historical development. While two highly comprehensive books and one thorough survey article have been written on the…

A brief remembrance of some aspects of the author's scientific interaction with Stephen Hawking. A contribution to Physics Today's March 14, 2018 web page in which Stephen Hawking is remembered by his colleagues.

This text is based on an invited talk at the Dedekind Symposium at Braunschweig in October 2016. It summarizes views from my recent commented edition of Dedekinds two books on the foundations of mathematics.

A short biographical note on the life and works of K. Ramachandra, one of the leading mathematicians in the field of analytic number theory in the second half of the twentieth century.

Generative Artificial Intelligence constitutes a new wave of automation. There is broad agreement among economists that humanity is potentially entering into a period of profound change. However, significant uncertainties and disagreements…

I discuss the historical roots of the landscape problem and propose criteria for its successful resolution. This provides a perspective to evaluate the possibility to solve it in several of the speculative cosmological scenarios under study…

This chapter begins by outlining a promising, new theoretical framework for the process by which human culture evolves inspired by the views of complexity theorists on the problem of how life began. Elements of culture, like species, evolve…

The concept of spin hydrodynamics is reexamined and briefly characterized.

I present a brief survey of surveys, and their results and implications, intended to set the context for the ensuing discussion.

Due to the recent renewal in the interest for embedded surfaces we provide a list of commented references of interest.