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The Abel Prize 2008-2012
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The Abel Prize 2008-2012 [electronic resource] / edited by Helge Holden, Ragni Piene.
ISBN
9783642394492
Publication
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Physical Description
XVII, 571 p. 72 illus., 43 illus. in color. online resource.
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Summary
Covering the years 2008-2012, this book profiles the life and work of recent winners of the Abel Prize: · John G. Thompson and Jacques Tits, 2008 · Mikhail Gromov, 2009 · John T. Tate Jr., 2010 · John W. Milnor, 2011 · Endre Szemerédi, 2012. The profiles feature autobiographical information as well as a description of each mathematician's work. In addition, each profile contains a complete bibliography, a curriculum vitae, as well as photos — old and new. As an added feature, interviews with the Laureates are presented on an accompanying web site (http://extras.springer.com/). The book also presents a history of the Abel Prize written by the historian Kim Helsvig, and includes a facsimile of a letter from Niels Henrik Abel, which is transcribed, translated into English, and placed into historical perspective by Christian Skau. This book follows on The Abel Prize: 2003-2007, The First Five Years (Springer, 2010), which profiles the work of the first Abel Prize winners.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 19, 2014
Contents
Preface
K.G. Helsvig: The Abel Prize – the Missing Nobel in Mathematics.- 2008 John G. Thompson and Jacques Tits: J.G.Thompson: Some Reflections.- R. Lyons and R.M.Guralnick: The Work of John Griggs Tompson: A Survey
List of Publications for John G. Thompson
Curriculum Vitae for John G. Thompson
F. Buekenhout: A biography of Jacques Tits
F. Buekenhout: A Report on the Scientific Contributions of Jacques Tits
List of Publications
Curriculum Vitae
2009 Misha Gromov: M.Gromov: A Few Recollections
D.Burago, and Ya. Eliashberg (Eds.): A Few Snapshots From the Work of Mikhail Gromov
List of Publications
Curriculum Vitae
2010 John T. Tate Jr.: J.Tate: An Autobiography
J.S. Milne: The Work of John Tate
List of Publications
Curriculum Vitae
2011 John W. Milnor: J.Milnor: Autobiography
H.Bass: Milnor's Work in Algebra and Its Ramifications
M.Lyubich: John Milnor's Work in Dynamics
L.C.Siebenmann: John W. Milnor's Work on the Classification of Differentiable Manifolds
List of Publications
Curriculum Vitae
2012 Endre Szemerédi.: E. Szemerédi: Autobiography
W.T.Gowers: The Mathematics of Endre Szemerédi
List of Publications
Curriculum Vitae
A Letter by Niels Henrik Abel to August Leopold Crelle
C.Skau: Abel and the Theory of Algebraic Equations
Appendices: The Abel Committee
The Niels Henrik Abel Board
The Abel Lectures 2003-2012
The Abel Presenters 2003-2012.- Addenda, Errata and Updates.
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