Related papers: Eulogy for Andrew Wiles
I document 32 students who graduated to receive PhDs under Feynman's supervision. I provide links to their doctoral dissertations.
Here we provide a complete English translation of Walter Gr\"obli's 1877 Ph.D. Thesis, together with some notes on the process. The work considers the dynamics of point vortices in a two-dimensional inviscid incompressible fluid and derives…
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.
In lectures at the Newton Institute in June of 1993, Andrew Wiles announced a proof of a large part of the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture and, as a consequence, Fermat's Last Theorem. This report for nonexperts discusses the mathematics…
This is a concise foreword to, rather than a review of D-brane physics.
This file, provided as bibliographical information, contains the table of contents and editors' foreword from the proceedings of the July 1996 Warwick EuroConference on Algebraic Geometry.
These notes on string theory are based on a series of talks I gave during my graduate studies. As the talks, this introductory essay is intended for young students and non-string theory physicists.
This memoir is part of the author's `Habilitation \`a Diriger des Recherches' (HDR) dossier: it summarizes some of his researches after his PhD thesis. (The HDR diploma is general requirement for many purposes [e.g., supervising PhD…
These are notes for a graduate-level introductory course on singularity categories.
These brief remarks have been prepared in connection with a conference in honor of my thesis advisor, Richard Rochberg.
George Whitesides is a Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers Professor at Harvard University. In this contribution he describes the development of microfluidic techniques, from the spark that ignited this branch of academic research and its…
This paper was originally designed as a literature review for a doctoral dissertation focusing on Wikipedia. This exposition gives the structure of Wikipedia and the latest trends in Wikipedia research.
This is the opening article of the abstract book of conference "Set-Theoretic Topology and Topological Algebra" in honor of professor Alexander Arhangelskii on the occasion of his 80th birthday held in 2018 at Moscow State University.
This paper describes the rationale, curriculum and subject matter of a new MSc module being taught on an MSc Finance and Information Management course at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff. Academic research on spreadsheet risks…
These are largely expanded notes from lectures on Higgs moduli and abelianisation given in Angers, France (2014) and Guaruja, Brazil (2015). Dedicated to Ugo Bruzzo on his 60-th birthday. Version 2: minor corrections.
This thesis (Habilitation \`a diriger des recherches) presents some of my research contributions since my Ph.D defense in 2008. I have had the chance to participate in the development of quantum programming languages since their early…
With the surge in data-centric AI and its increasing capabilities, AI applications have become a part of our everyday lives. However, misunderstandings regarding their capabilities, limitations, and associated advantages and disadvantages…
This paper presents exploration of speech enable operating systems, software, and applications. It begins with a description of how such systems work, and the level of accuracy that can be expected. It explains the applications of speech…
On the occasion of Alan Dow 60th birthday.
In quantitative SciSci (science of science) studies, accurately identifying individual scholars is paramount for scientific data analysis. However, the variability in how names are represented-due to commonality, abbreviations, and…