Mathematical conversations: selections from The mathematical intelligencer

Title Page......Page conversations-001.djvu
Copyright......Page conversations-002.djvu
Contents......Page conversations-003.djvu
Introduction . Jeremy Gray . Robin Wilson......Page conversations-007.djvu
1.  Interviews and Reminiscences......Page conversations-008.djvu
2.  Algebra and Number Theory......Page 8
3.  Analysis......Page conversations-009.djvu
5.  Arrangements and Patterns......Page 9
6.  Geometry and Topology......Page conversations-010.djvu
7.  History of Mathematics......Page conversations-011.djvu
Part One – Interviews and Reminiscences......Page conversations-013.djvu
1 – An Interview with Michael Atiyah . Roberto Minio......Page conversations-015.djvu
2 – On the Steps of Moscow University . Steve Smale......Page conversations-029.djvu
3 – An Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre . C.T. Chong . Y.K. Leong......Page conversations-038.djvu
4 – Mathematical Anecdotes . Steven G. Krantz......Page conversations-045.djvu
5 – My Collaboration with Julia Robinson . Yuri Matijasevich......Page conversations-055.djvu
6 – C.N. Yang and Contemporary Mathematics . D.Z. Zhang......Page conversations-067.djvu
Part Two – Algebra and Number Theory......Page conversations-081.djvu
7 – The Proof of the Mordell Conjencure . Spencer Bloch......Page conversations-083.djvu
8 – Adventures in Arithmetick, or: How to Maki Good Use of a Fourier Transform . R.C. Vaughan......Page conversations-093.djvu
9 – Solving Polynomial Systems . Tien-Yien Li......Page conversations-108.djvu
10 – Artin\'s Conjecture for Primitive Roots . M. Ram Murty......Page conversations-119.djvu
11 – Representation Theory of Finite Groups: from Frobenius to Brauer . Charles W. Curtis......Page conversations-134.djvu
12 – Quaternionic Determinants . Helmer Aslaksen......Page conversations-148.djvu
Part Three – Analysis......Page conversations-163.djvu
13 – The Surfaces of Delaunay . James Eells......Page conversations-165.djvu
14 – The Banach-Tarski Theorem . Robert M. French......Page conversations-172.djvu
15 – Painlevé\'s Conjecture . Florin N. Diacu......Page conversations-181.djvu
16 – A Geometrization of Lebesgue\'s Space-Filling Curve . Hans Sagan......Page conversations-191.djvu
17 – Sophus Lie and Harmony in Mathematical Physics, on the 150th Anniversary of His Birth . Nail H. Ibragimov......Page conversations-198.djvu
18 – The Missing Link . Felipe Acker......Page conversations-213.djvu
Part Four – Applied Mathematics......Page conversations-223.djvu
19 – Yeast Oscillations, Belousov-Zhabotinsky Waves, and the Non-retraction Theorem . Steven Strogatz......Page conversations-225.djvu
20 – Strings . Yu. I. Manin......Page conversations-235.djvu
21 – Integrability in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics: Solitons . S.P. Novikov......Page conversations-244.djvu
22 – On Newton\'s Problem of Minimal Resistance . Giuseppe Buttazzo . Bernhard Kawohl......Page conversations-256.djvu
23 – If Hamilton Had Prevailed: Quaternions in Physics . J. Lambek......Page conversations-265.djvu
Part Five – Arrangements and Patterns......Page conversations-281.djvu
24 – On the Problème des Ménages . Jacques Dutka......Page conversations-283.djvu
25 – Quasecrystals: The View from Les Houches . Marjorie Senechal . Jean Taylor......Page conversations-294.djvu
26 – Celtic Knotwork: Mathematical Art . Peter R. Cromwell......Page conversations-308.djvu
27 – The Sacred Cut Revisited: The Pavement of the Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence . Kim Williams......Page conversations-321.djvu
28 – Symmetrical Combinations of Three or Four Hollows Triangles . H.S.M. Coxeter......Page conversations-329.djvu
Part Six – Geometry and Topology......Page conversations-337.djvu
29 – Instantons and the Topology of 4-Manifolds . Ronald J. Stern......Page conversations-339.djvu
30 – The Computer-Aided Discovery of New Embedded Minimal Surfaces . David Hoffman......Page conversations-348.djvu
31 – What is the Difference between a Parabola and a Hyperbola? . Sheeram S. Abhyankar......Page conversations-366.djvu
32 – How to Build Minimal Polyhedral Models of the Boy Surface . Ulrich Brehm......Page conversations-380.djvu
33 – Recent Developments in Braid and Link Theory . Joan S. Birman......Page conversations-387.djvu
34 – Hyperbolic Geometry and Spaces of Riemann Surfaces . Linda Keen......Page conversations-399.djvu
Part Seven – History of Mathematics......Page conversations-411.djvu
35 – Kurt Gödel in Sharper Focus . John W. Dawson Jr.......Page conversations-413.djvu
36 – Who Would Have Won the Fields Medals a Hundred Years Ago? . Jeremy Gray......Page conversations-424.djvu
37 – The Last 100 Days of the Bieberbach Conjecture . O.M. Fomenko . G.V. Kuz\'mina......Page conversations-435.djvu
38 – A Little-Known Chapter in the History of German Mathematics . Walter Kaufmann-Bühler......Page conversations-448.djvu
39 – The War of the Frogs and the Mice, or the Crisis of the Mathematische Annalen . D. van Dalen......Page conversations-451.djvu
40 – Hilbert\'s Problems and Their Sequels . Jean-Michel Kantor......Page conversations-472.djvu
Index of Names......Page conversations-489.djvu