This memoir is a personal exploration of the life, the writings and the mathematical achievements of a the 19th century Russian mathematician, Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), who became arguably the first woman to have a professional university career in the way we understand it…
"Vladimir Arnold, an eminent mathematician of our time, is known both for his mathematical results, which are many and prominent, and for his strong opinions, often expressed in an uncompromising and provoking manner. His dictum that "Mathematics is a part of physics where exper…
Felix Berezin was an outstanding Soviet mathematician who in the 1960s and 70s was the driving force behind the emergence of the branch of mathematics now known as supermathematics. The integral over the anticommuting Grassmann variables that he introduced in the 1960s laid the …
Vorbemerkung Der Einfachheit halber werden im folgenden die Werke, auf die Bezug genom men wird, mit der Nummer des Literaturverzeichnisses genannt. Die Zahl hinter dem Querstrich bedeutet die jeweilige Seitenzahl. Beispiel: 158 Band 2/65 meint die Seite 65 des zweiten Bandes de…
