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A Comprehensive Course in Analysis by Poincaré Prize winner Barry Simon is a five-volume set that can serve as a graduate-level analysis textbook with a lot of additional bonus information, including hundreds of problems and numerous notes that extend the text and provide important historical background. Depth and breadth of exposition make this set a […]

John von Neumann wrote The Mathematician which was published in Works of the Mind Vol. I no. 1 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1947), 180-196. It has also been published in von Neumann’s Collected Works. A discussion of the nature of intellectual work is a difficult task in any field, even in fields which are […]

Birth of a theorem : a mathematical adventure

1. L’évolution des recherches concernant Ibn al-Yāsamīn La notoriété dont a bénéficié Ibn al-Yāsamīn est essentiellement due à l’extraordinaire diffusion qu’a connu son poème didactique al-urjūza fī l-jabr wa l-muqābala [Poème sur la restauration et la comparaison], enseigné et commenté jusqu’au XIXe siècle. À la fin de ce siècle, des copies du manuscrit d’al-urjūza sont […]