Wolf Prize in Mathematics

by Chern, S. S.; Hirzebruch, Friedrich

• ISBN13: 9789810239459
• ISBN10: 9810239459
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Table of Contents

List of Wolf Prize winners	v
Preface	vii
Lars V. Ahlfors
F. W. Gehring
Curriculum Vitae	1	(1)
Publications	2	(5)
Ahlfors' Preface to his Collected Papers	7	(4)
Caratheodory's Report on Ahlfors' Work for the Fields Medal at the ICM in Oslo 1936	11	(3)
Ahlfors' Address as Honorary President at the Opening of the ICM in Berkeley 1986	14	(1)
An Extension of Schwarz's Lemma	15	(6)
Quasiconformal Reflections	21	(11)
Finitely Generated Kleinian Groups	32	(17)
Henri Cartan
Curriculum Vitae	49	(2)
Breve analyse des travaux	51	(11)
Les Seminaires Cartan (allocution prononcee par J.-P. Serre en 1975)	62	(5)
Varietes analytiques complexes et cohomologie	67	(15)
Espaces fibres et groupes d'homotopie. I. Constructions generales (with J.-P. Serre)	82	(3)
Espaces fibres et groupes d'homotopie. II. Applications (with J.-P. Serre)	85	(3)
Discours prononce le ler fevrier 1977 a l'occasion de la remise de la Medaille d'Or du C.N.R.S	88	(3)
Lennart A. E. Carleson
Curriculum Vitae	91	(1)
Bibliography	92	(4)
Lennart Carleson's Work in Analysis	96	(12)
P. W. Jones
Lennart Carleson's Work in Statistical Mechanics and Dynamical Systems	108	(12)
M. Benedicks
On Convergence and Growth of Partial Sums of Fourier Series	120	(23)
Shiing-Shen Chern
Curriculum Vitae	143	(2)
Bibliography	145	(9)
My Mathematical Education	154	(15)
S. S. Chern as Geometer and Friend	169	(4)
A. Weil
Abzahlungen fur Gewebe	173	(8)
A Simple Intrinsic Proof of the Gauss-Bonnet Formula for Closed Riemannian Manifolds	181	(6)
On Finsler Geometry	187	(5)
Ennio De Giorgi
M. Miranda
Ennio de Giorgi (1928-1996)	192	(3)
J. -L. Lions
F. Murat
Bibliography	195	(11)
De Giorgi's Summer Holidays and XIX Hilbert Problem	206	(1)
M. Miranda
Alcune applicazioni al Calcolo delle variazioni di una teoria della misura K-dimensionale	207	(1)
Minimal Cones and the Bernstein Problem (with E. Bombieri and E. Giusti)	208	(26)
New Problems in Γ-convergence and G-Convergence	234	(8)
Samuel Eilenberg
W. S. Massey
Samuel Eilenberg (1913-1998)	242	(9)
H. Bass
H. Cartan
P. Freyd
A. Heller
S. MacLane
Bibliography	251	(5)
Natural Isomorphisms in Group Theory	256	(7)
S. MacLane
Singular Homology Theory	263	(25)
Axiomatic Approach to Homology Theory	288	(4)
N. E. Steenrod
Paul Erdos
B. Bollobas
The Life and Work of Paul Erdos	292	(24)
B. Bollobas
Selected Publications of Paul Erdos	316	(12)
The Gaussian Law of Errors in the Theory of Additive Number Theoretic Functions (with M. Kac)	328	(5)
The Product of Consecutive Integers in Never a Power (with J. L. Selfridge)	333	(10)
Friedrich Hirzebruch
Preliminary Remarks	343	(1)
Bibliography after 1987	344	(1)
Curriculum vitae mathematicae	345	(2)
H. Grauert
G. Harder
R. Remmert
Friedrich Hirzebruch-An Appreciation	347	(5)
M. F. Atiyah
On Steenrod's Reduced Powers, The Index of Inertia, and the Todd Genus	352	(6)
Arithmetic Genera and the Theorem of Riemann-Roch for Algebraic Varieties	358	(5)
Riemann-Roch Theorems for Differentiable Manifolds (with M. F. Atiyah)	363	(6)
Learning Complex Analysis in Munster-Paris, Zurich and Princeton from 1945 to 1953	369	(13)
Kunihiko Kodaria: Mathematician, Friend, and Teacher	382	(7)
Wolf Prize Ceremony The Knesset	389	(1)
Opening Speech, ICM Berlin 1998	390	(3)
Lars Hormander
Curriculum Vitae	393	(2)
Bibliography	395	(9)
My Mathematical Education	404	(6)
On the Theory of General Partial Differential Operators	410	(90)
Differential Equations without Solutions	500	(5)
Hypoelliptic Second Order Differential Equations	505	(25)
Kiyosi Ito
Vita	530	(1)
Foreword in Kiyosi Ito: Selected Papers	531	(5)
Bibliography	536	(4)
On a Formula Concerning Stochastic Differentials	540	(11)
Multiple Wiener Integral	551	(13)
The Brownian Motion and Tensor Fields on Riemannian Manifold	564	(4)
Stochastic Differentials	568	(8)
Joseph B. Keller
Curriculum Vitae	576	(2)
Biographical Sketch	578	(1)
Publication List	579	(20)
Geometrical Theory of Diffraction	599	(15)
Corrected Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantum Conditions for Nonseparable Systems	614	(9)
Kunihiko Kodaria
Y. Miyaoka
K. Ueno
Life of Kunihiko Kodaria	623	(24)
Y. Miyaoka
K. Ueno
Bibliography	647	(6)
On a Differential-Geometric Method in the Theory of Analytic Stacks	653	(6)
On Compact Analytic Surfaces	659	(15)
Robert Langlands
Bibliography	674	(5)
Problems in the Theory of Automorphic Forms	679	(27)
Jean Leray
P. Malliavin
Jean Leray Works	706	(3)
P. Malliavin
Biographie de Jean Leray	709	(2)
P. Malliavin
Sur le mouvement d'un fluide visqueux emplissant l'espace (introduction only)	711	(4)
Topologie et equations fonctionnelles (with J. Schauder)	715	(3)
Sur un probleme de representation conforme pose par la theorie de Helmholtz (with A. Weinstein)	718	(3)
L'anneau d'homologie d'une representation	721	(3)
Structure de l'anneau d'homologie d'une representation	724	(3)
Proprietes de l'anneau d'homologie de la projection d'un espace fibre sur sa base	727	(3)
Determination, dans les cas non exceptionnels, de l'anneau de cohomologie de l'espace homogene quotient d'un groupe de Lie compact par un sous-groupe de meme range	730	(3)
Prolongement de la transformation de Laplace	733	(8)
La theorie des residus sur une variete analytique complexe	741	(5)
La calcul differentiel et integral sur une variete analytique complexe	746	(7)
Systeme d'equations aux derivees partielles a caracteristiques multiples: probleme de Cauchy ramifie; hyperbolicite partielle (introduction only) (with Y. Hamada and C. Wagschal)	753	(3)
Prolongements analytiques de la solution du probleme de Cauchy lineaire (with Y. Hamada and A. Takeuchi) (introduction only)	756