Mathematical conversations. Selections from the Mathematical Intelligencer
The scope of the first twenty years of \textit{The Mathematical Intelligencer} is well captured by this representative collection of forty articles. Written for professional mathematicians, they cover social and historical aspects as well as past and current significant developments. The seven roughly equal sections are devoted to Interviews and Reminiscences, Algebra and Number Theory, Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Arrangements and Patterns, Geometry and Topology, and History of Mathematics. Here we encounter, for example, Steve Smale on the steps of Moscow University in 1966, Yuri Matijasevich collaborating with Julia Robinson on Hilbert's tenth problem, Celtic knotwork, the mathematical strangeness of the Banach-Tarski theorem, space-filling curves and minimal surfaces, the deep connections between mathematics and physics, the resolution of monumental problems such as the Mordell and Bieberbach conjectures, speculation on who might have won the Fields Medals a century ago and a whimsical piece by Walter Kaufmann-Bühler on a proposal to establish a new German research facility in 1892.
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 680243
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1516982
- The art and practice of mathematics. Interviews at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2010--2019
- Interview with Professor Stephen Smale
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2108951
- Mathematicians who never were
- Mathematics going forward. Collected mathematical brushstrokes
- Encounter with a geometer. I
- Conversations with a mathematician. Math, art, science and the limits of reason. A collection of his most wide-ranging and non-technical lectures and interviews
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5836089 (Why is no real title available?)
- The harmony of the world. 75 years of Mathematics Magazine. With the assistance of Peter Ross
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5500696 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1503619 (Why is no real title available?)
- The art and practice of mathematics. Interviews at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2010--2019
- About the cover: Mathematicians in bronze
- Supervaluation on trees for Kripke's theory of truth
- Five gaps in mathematics
- Random surfaces and lattice Yang-Mills
- Fractional Gaussian forms and gauge theory: an overview
- Resultants of skew polynomials over division rings
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