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Avi Wigderson — a short biography
It is customary for Abel prize winners to write a brief biography in these volumes, and I have done the same below. Writing it, the shortcomings of...
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Johann Heinrich Lambert: A Biography in Context
The sixteenth century in Europe began with an event that after two centuries would lead to a change in the way of conceiving things, and a desire on...
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Johann Heinrich Lambert A Biography in Context
The sixteenth century in Europe began with an event that after two centuries would lead to a change in the way of conceiving things, and a desire on...
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Biography of Harold Widom
Harold Widom was born September 23, 1932, in Newark, New Jersey, during the heart of the Depression. His parents were born in eastern Europe, and...
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Eri Jabotinsky, mathematician and politician: a short biography
Despite the fact that Eri Jabotinsky (1910–1969) published only few (i.e. fourteen) mathematical papers, some of them had a remarkable influence in...
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A Sip of Mathematics History
Wang Yuan places great emphasis on the history of mathematics. His research in this field started from 1985 and major publications include The...
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Theoretical Physics, Wavelets, Analysis, Genomics An Indisciplinary Tribute to Alex Grossmann
Over the course of a scientific career spanning more than fifty years, Alex Grossmann (1930-2019) made many important contributions to a wide range...
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Mathematical and Philosophical Imagery in Original Sources Related to Émilie du Châtelet
Emblematic imagery was prevalent in scientific books in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with symbolism appearing in frontispieces,...
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A Piece of Victor Katsnelson’s Mathematical Biography
We give an overview of several works of Victor Katsnelson published in 1965–1970, and pertaining to the complex and harmonic analysis and the...
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V. A. Rokhlin and D. A. Gudkov Against the Background of Hilbert’s 16th Problem (According to Their Correspondence in 1971–1982)
The story of the friendship and collaboration between Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin and the Nizhny Novgorod mathematician Dmitry Andreevich Gudkov...
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Russian Trace in the Family History and Work of Alexander Grothendieck
In this note, based on archival documents, we supplement and clarify information about the father of Alexander Grothendieck, most of which is in the...
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The Discovery and Rediscovery of Mathematical Genius—A Review of “The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan”
This is a review of Robert Kanigel’s highly influential biography on Srinivasa Ramanujan, the first detailed account of his most remarkable life.
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Sampling, Approximation, and Signal Analysis Harmonic Analysis in the Spirit of J. Rowland Higgins
During his long and distinguished career, J. Rowland Higgins (1935-2020) made a substantial impact on many mathematical fields through his work on...
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TO THE MEMORY OF PROFESSOR NIKOLAI KARAPETIANTS: LIFE AND SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
This review article is dedicated to Professor Nikolai Karapetiants on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of his birthday. This article contains a...
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Diagrams, Visual Imagination, and Continuity in Peirce's Philosophy of Mathematics
This book is about the relationship between necessary reasoning and visual experience in Charles S. Peirce’s mathematical philosophy. It presents...
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Conclusion
This study brings together bits of Peirce’s biography that reflect his mathematical cast of mind, some important outcomes of his work as an applied...
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The New Mathematical Coloring Book Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators
The New Mathematical Coloring Book(TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and...
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