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1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) : portraits |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
This book features interviews of 38 eminent mathematicians and mathematical scientists who were invited to participate in the programs of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore. Originally published in its newsletter Imprints from 2003 to 2009, these interviews give a fascinating and insightful glimpse into the passion driving some of the most creative minds in modern research in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, economics and engineering. --from publisher description. |
| Contents |
Graphs extremal and random / Bela Bollobas -- Stable islands, chaotic seas / Leonid Bunimovich -- On Her Majesty's (the Queen of Science's) Service / Tony Fan-Cheong Chan -- Analyst in conformal land / Sun-Yung Alice Chang -- Basic research, hidden returns / Jennifer Tour Chayes -- On wings of splines / Carl de Boor -- The lure of magic and mathematics / Persi Diaconis -- Sparse Data, Beautiful Mine / David Donoho -- Archway to Nobel / Robert F. Engle -- Efficient markets, random paths / Hans Follmer -- Mathematician in control / Avner Friedman -- Mathematics, music, masters / Roe Goodman -- Viral visitations, epidemic models / Bryan T. Grenfell -- Brownian motion, white noise / Takeyuki Hida -- Exceptional lie group theorist / Roger Howe -- Dancing with randomness / Wilfrid Kendall -- Economist for all seasons / Lawrence Klein -- Modeling and harnessing turbulence / Brian E. Launder -- Revolution, transitions, partial differential equations / Fanghua Lin -- Of science in defense / Pao Chuen Lui -- Game theory master / Eric Maskin -- Infectious diseases, vaccines, models / Eduardo Massad -- Choice models, maximal preferences / Daniel McFadden -- Magnetohydrodynamic attraction / Keith Moffatt -- Mathematician with an edge / Stanley Osher -- Computer vision, digital magic / Doug Roble -- Unraveling genes, understanding diseases / Ron Shamir -- On the shoulder of a giant / Albert Nikolaevich Shiryaev -- Change-point, a consequential analysis / David O. Siegmund -- Logic and mathematics / Theodore Slaman and W. Hugh Woodin -- Good gene hunting / Terry Speed -- The invariant, the direct and the "pretentious" / Charles Stein -- The changing face of applied mathematics / Gilbert Strang -- Zen of computational attraction / Eitan Tadmor -- Optimization, an interior point of view / Michael Todd -- Wireless communications, at the Shannon limit -- Breathing mathematics into genes / Michael S. Waterman. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
National University of Singapore. Institute for Mathematical Sciences -- Interviews.
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Mathematicians -- Interviews.
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Mathematicians -- Interviews.
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National University of Singapore. Institute for Mathematical Sciences -- Interviews.
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Mathematics.
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MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
National University of Singapore. Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leong, Yu Kiang, 1946- Creative minds, charmed lives. Singapore : World Scientific, ©2010 9789814317580 (OCoLC)607980579 |
| ISBN |
9789814317597 (electronic bk.) |
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9814317594 (electronic bk.) |
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