Related papers: The Work of R.E. Borcherds
A focused modernization of Sophus Lie's brilliant writings about the foundations of geometry that every contemporary geometer should have at least once a look at. Translated, updated, commented.
This paper describes the work of Jesse Douglas on the Plateau problem, work for which he was awarded a Fields Medal in 1936, and considers the contributions Tibor Rado made in the 1930s.
These brief remarks have been prepared in connection with a conference in honor of my thesis advisor, Richard Rochberg.
This is an English translation of the monograph "Die Klassenk\"orper der komplexen Multiplikation" by Max Deuring, published in 1958 as Enzyklop\"adie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, Band I-2, Heft 10, Teil II by B.G. Teuber…
Boltzmann's work, ``Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve," discusses his demonstration of the essential characteristics of the H-curve in a clear, concise, and precise style, showcasing his efforts to persuade his peers. To make these findings more…
On the occasion of Elliott Lieb being awarded the Gauss Prize 2022, we give a non-technical overview over some of his seminal works in mathematical physics. We emphasize, in particular, his work on Coulomb many-body systems and functional…
This is a work in two parts devoted to solutions of the so-called {\em four Landau's problems} in Number Theory, listed by Edmund Landau at the 1912 International Congress of Mathematics. In Part I the {\em Goldbach's conjecture} is proved.…
Supportive attitudes can bring to a blossoming science, while neglect can quickly make science absent from everyday life and provide a very primitive view of the world. We compare one important Greek achievement, the computation of the…
We give a short appreciation of Robin Milner's seminal contributions to the theory of concurrency.
Talk given at ICM '98, Berlin, reviewing some of the recent developments in understanding of string theory for a mathematical audience (to appear in Documenta Mathematica).
Talk at the International Conference ``G\'eom\'etrie au vingti\`eme ci\`ecle: 1930--2000'', Paris, Institut Henri Poincar\'e, Sept. 2001. The title is a homage to Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz whose book fascinated the author many years…
Proposal for contribution to the quantum field theory section in "Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics".
A catalogue of African Doctorates in Mathematics has been compiled and published in 2007 by the late Professor Paulus Gerdes. In this paper, we revise and update the list of mathematicians from Burkina-Faso. Starting from a short…
Nowadays, scientific challenges usually require approaches that cross traditional boundaries between academic disciplines, driving many researchers towards interdisciplinarity. Despite its obvious importance, there is a lack of studies on…
Following the formuation of Borcherds, we develop the theory of (quantum) vertex algebras, including several concrete examples. We also investigate the relationship between the vertex algebra and the chiral algebra due to Beilinson and…
This is my talk on the Bourbaki seminar, November 1996. It contains an elementary introduction to Borcherds' product formulas.
A recent essay [1] reminds us of how richly Boltzmann deserves to be admiringly commemorated for the originality of his ideas on the occasion of his 150th birthday. Without any doubt, the scientific community owes Boltzmann a great debt of…
MSc thesis written under the supervision of Dr. J. Pilz (Klagenfurt University) and Dr. W. Mueller (Linz University) during the FWF Project 'Optimal design of correlated random fields'.
This is an intrusion in the life and the mathematics of Norbert A'Campo, intended to be a tribute to him and an acknowledgement of his impact on those who know him and his work. The final version of this paper appears in the book ``Essays…
A Thesis about Euler discussing the possibilities and limits of his method of work in Mathematics.