The Unravelers: Mathematical Snapshots

ISBN-13: 9781568814414 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str.

Dars, Jean-Francois

Opis

Through revealing photographs and accompanying text, this book offers an enchanting and beautiful glimpse into the inner life of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES). The IHES in France is an institute of advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics with an interest in epistemology and the history of science. It provides exceptionally gifted scientists with a place where they can devote themselves entirely to their research, free of teaching and administrative constraints, and offers them the opportunity to invite visitors with whom they wish to work."

Spis treści

Prologue -- Michael Atiyah – Dreams -- Interval -- Alain Connes – Pitiless Reality -- Dirk Kreimer – From Tasmania with Love -- Karen Yeats – Puzzles -- Paulo Almeida – Structured Fury -- Ngô Bao Châu – A Tartar Desert -- Paul-Olivier Dehaye – Exoticism -- Entr’acte -- Sophie de Buyl – Curiosity -- Th ibault Damour – Th e Paving Stones of the Route de Charres -- Pause -- Cécile DeWitt – From 1948 to the Present Day -- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat – Knowing, Understanding, Discovering -- Arndt Benecke – Farewell to Alexander’s Sword -- Interlude -- Annick Lesne – Dialogue on the Scales of Life -- Teatime -- Nikita Nekrasov – Lost in Translation -- Yiannis Vlassopoulos – Th ought Technology: Th e Pursuit of Structure -- Ivan Todorov – Mathematical Physics -- Anna Wienhard – In Praise of Tautology -- Giovanni Landi – New Worlds -- Pierre Deligne – Th e Music Pavilion -- Claire Voisin – Long Live the Whale -- Jean-Marc Deshouillers – What Does One Write on It? -- Pierre Cartier – Solidarity -- Ali Chamseddine – North-South -- Christophe Breuil – Privilege -- Laurent Berger – What Do Mathematicians Do? -- Matilde Lalin – Fractalitas -- Jürgen Jost – Mathematics, Biology and Neurobiology -- Henry Tuckwell – Mathematics in the Biological Sciences -- Intermezzo -- Katia Consani – The Unravelers -- Oscar Lanford – Long Live the Machine -- Jürg Fröhlich – Arriving in Paradise -- Sylvie Paycha – Go to the Board! -- Dennis Sullivan – Lunch at IHES (1975–1995) -- Jacques Tits – Happy Day at Bures-sur-Yvette in the Sixties -- Wendy Lowen – Th e Flowers of Maths -- Michael Berry – Th e Arcane in the Mundane -- Nathalie Deruelle – Allegory -- Coff ee break -- Minoru Wakimoto – Correspondence -- Victor Kac – Ilan -- Mikhaïl Gromov – Th e Four Mysteries of the World -- Étienne Ghys – Flashes -- David Eisenbud – State of Grace -- Christophe Soulé – Violins -- Matilde Marcolli – Mathematics as Culture and Knowledge -- Alessandra Carbone – A Question of Time -- Jean-François Méla – “Th e Times, Th ey Are A-changing” -- Jean-Pierre Bourguignon – Th e Vision -- Denis Auroux – Taming Mathematics -- Alexandr Usnich – Th ree Lights -- Maxim Kontsevitch – Beyond Numbers -- Photographs -- Th ank You for Everything -- Index.

O autorze

Dars \, Jean-Francois; Lesne \, Annick; Papillault \, Anne