Mikio Sato and Mathematical Physics

Mikio Sato, a Visionary of Mathematics, Volume 54, Number 2

Like singularities in mathematics and physics, ideas propagate, and the speed of propagation depends highly on the energy put into promoting them. Mikio Sato did not spend a great deal of time or energy popularizing his ideas. We can hope that his receipt of the 2002/2003 Wolf Prize 1 will help make better known his deep work, which is perhaps too original to be immediately accepted. Sato does ...

Mathematical physics.

We dedicate this issue of Communications in Mathematical Physics to our dear friend and colleague Roland Dobrushin, who died of cancer on November 13, 1995, at the age of 65. Dobrushin was not only a great, classic scientist, but he was also a man of integrity, courage, and good humor. These qualities stood out at a time and place where they were extremely scarce commodities. His joy of life wa...

Mathematical Physics and Life

It is a fascinating subject to explore how well we can understand the processes of life on the basis of fundamental laws of physics. It is emphasised that viewing biological processes as manipulation of information extracts their essential features. This information processing can be analysed using well-known methods of computer science. The lowest level of biological information processing, in...

Experimental Mathematics and Mathematical Physics

One of the most effective techniques of experimental mathematics is to compute mathematical entities such as integrals, series or limits to high precision, then attempt to recognize the resulting numerical values. Recently these techniques have been applied with great success to problems in mathematical physics. Notable among these applications are the identification of some key multi-dimension...

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