LEADER 03684nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910456225603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-14487-5 010 $a9786613144874 010 $a981-4317-59-4 035 $a(CKB)2490000000001938 035 $a(EBL)731293 035 $a(OCoLC)740435791 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521781 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12209918 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521781 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522770 035 $a(PQKB)10738405 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC731293 035 $a(WSP)00001079 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL731293 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10480256 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL314487 035 $a(EXLCZ)992490000000001938 100 $a20110713d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreative minds charmed lives$b[electronic resource] $einterviews at Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore /$fYu Kiang Leong 210 $aSingapore ;$aHackensack, N.J. $cWorld Scientific Pub. Co.$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a981-4317-58-6 327 $aContents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Graphs Extremal and Random; Stable Islands, Chaotic Seas; On Her Majesty's (the Queen of Science's) Service; Analyst in Conformal Land; Basic Research, Hidden Returns; On Wings of Splines; The Lure of Magic and Mathematics; Sparse Data, Beautiful Mine; Archway to Nobel; Efficient Markets, Random Paths; Mathematician in Control; Mathematics, Music, Masters; Viral Visitations, Epidemic Models; Brownian Motion, White Noise; Exceptional Lie Group Theorist; Dancing with Randomness; Economist for All Seasons; Modeling and Harnessing Turbulence 327 $aRevolution, Transitions, Partial Differential EquationsOf Science in Defense; Game Theory Master; Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, Models; Choice Models, Maximal Preferences; Magnetohydrodynamic Attraction; Mathematician with an Edge; Computer Vision, Digital Magic; Unraveling Genes, Understanding Diseases; On the Shoulder of a Giant; Change-Point, a Consequential Analysis; Logic and Mathematics; Good Gene Hunting; The Invariant, the Direct and the "Pretentious"; The Changing Face of Applied Mathematics; Zen of Computational Attraction; Optimization, an Interior Point of View 327 $aWireless Communications, at the Shannon LimitBreathing Mathematics into Genes; Author Index; Photo Credits; Disclaimer 330 $aThis book features interviews of 38 eminent mathematicians and mathematical scientists who were invited to participate in the programs of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore. Originally published in its newsletter ""Imprints"" from 2003 to 2009, these interviews give a fascinating and insightful glimpse into the passion driving some of the most creative minds in modern research in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, economics and engineering. The reader is drawn into a panorama of the past and present development of some of the ideas that ha 606 $aMathematicians$vInterviews 606 $aMathematics$vInterviews 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMathematicians 615 0$aMathematics 676 $a510.922 700 $aLeong$b Yu Kiang$058857 712 02$aNational University of Singapore.$bInstitute for Mathematical Sciences. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456225603321 996 $aCreative minds charmed lives$92075803 997 $aUNINA