Creative minds charmed lives [[electronic resource] ] : interviews at Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore / / Yu Kiang Leong
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| Autore: |
Leong Yu Kiang
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| Titolo: |
Creative minds charmed lives [[electronic resource] ] : interviews at Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore / / Yu Kiang Leong
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| Pubblicazione: | Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 510.922 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mathematicians |
| Mathematics | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 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 |
| Revolution, 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 | |
| Wireless Communications, at the Shannon LimitBreathing Mathematics into Genes; Author Index; Photo Credits; Disclaimer | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Creative minds charmed lives |
| ISBN: | 1-283-14487-5 |
| 9786613144874 | |
| 981-4317-59-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456225603321 |
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