International congres of mathematicians

The Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians

values. (b) The study of the approximate relations between these abstract values and the concrete values furnished by experi-values and the concrete values furnished by experi-

the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians Fine Analysis of

Blow up analysis has been very useful in the study of nonlinear partial diier-ential equations. Usually blow up analysis is done with respect to energy norms, namely, giving asymptotic description in Sobolev norms to a sequence of solutions (or approximate solutions) of nonlinear partial diierential equations. In a number of applications, pointwise asymptotic analysis is needed. This is a ner b...

Multifaceted Mathematicians

Murderers , Mathematicians ∗

This article outlines the history of our visualization of the interior of the human body. It throws some light on the emotional context and the underlying idea of man. In order of appearance on the historical stage, the leading characters are: painters, murderers (more precisely: executed persons including thieves driven merely by need, women with illegitimate children, etc.), and mathematician...

Mathematicians of Gaussian Elimination

G aussian elimination is universally known as “the” method for solving simultaneous linear equations. As Leonhard Euler remarked, it is the most natural way of proceeding (“der natürlichste Weg” [Euler, 1771, part 2, sec. 1, chap. 4, art. 45]). Because Gaussian elimination solves linear problems directly, it is an important technique in computational science and engineering, through which it ma...