Philosophical concerns rarely force their way into the average mathematician’s workday. But, in extreme circumstances, fundamental questions can arise as to the legitimacy of a certain manner of proceeding, say, as to whether a particular object should be granted ontological status, or whether a certain conclusion is epistemologically warranted. There are then two distinct views as to the role ...

The historical significance of the problem of relativistic rigid rotation is reviewed in light of recently published correspondence between Einstein and the mathematician Vladimir Varićak from the years 1909 to 1913.

The story of the friendship and collaboration between Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin Nizhny Novgorod mathematician Dmitry Andreevich Gudkov during last period Rokhlin’s mathematical biography, when he worked in topology real algebraic varieties, which obtained remarkable results. paper is based on correspondence 1971–1982 preserved Gudkov’s archive containing 15 letters by V. A.Rokhlin 8 D. A. Gud...

In his delightful memoir Love & Math [1] , mathematician Edward Frenkel shares the following anecdote about wireless telegraphy:

This survey is devoted to the memory of the most outstanding mathematician in Ukraine, Academician Mykhailo Kravchuk. A brief summary on his life and mathematical legacy is provided. Mathematics Subject Classification: 01A70, 11-03, 15-03, 30D30, 33C45, 34A30, 60E05

This article examines serious psychometric-based problems that caused the New York Math A graduation test introduced in 1999 to produce a 70% failure rate in 2003. In discussing this test, we highlight potential difficulties with all standards-based tests.

In the paper, I 'rst try to give some impression of Norwegian contributions to combinatorics in the 20th century. This is followed by some remarks on my own combinatorial experiences. c © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. [It] would bring to this country something absolutely new, namely the historic and humanistic side of mathematics. The success of the Institute of the History of...