The Arnoldfest: Proceedings of a Conference in Honour of V. I. Arnold for his Sixtieth Birthday: Proceedings of a Conference in Honour of V.I.Arnold ... Birthday (Fields Institute Communications) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821809458 ISBN 13: 9780821809457

Publisher: American Mathematical Society, 2000

Synopsis

This volume presents articles originating from invited talks at an exciting international conference held at The Fields Institute in Toronto celebrating the sixtieth birthday of the renowned mathematician, Vladimir Arnold. Experts from the world over - including several from 'Arnold's school' - gave illuminating talks and lively poster sessions. The presentations focussed on Arnold's main areas of interest: singularity theory, the theory of curves, symmetry groups, dynamical systems, mechanics, and related areas of mathematics. The book begins with notes of three lectures by V. Arnold given in the framework of the Institute's Distinguished Lecturer program.The topics of the lectures are: From Hilbert's Superposition Problem to Dynamical Systems; Symplectization, Complexification, and Mathematical Trinities; and, Topological Problems in Wave Propagation Theory and Topological Economy Principle in Algebraic Geometry. Arnold's three articles include insightful comments on Russian and Western mathematics and science. Complementing the first is Jurgen Moser's 'Recollections', concerning some of the history of KAM theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821809458
• ISBN 13: 9780821809457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 555
• Editor: Bierstone Edward, Khesin Boris, Khovanskii Askold, Marsden Jerrold E.