Creative minds charmed lives : interviews at Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore / Yu Kiang Leong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leong, Yu Kiang.

Contributor:

National University of Singapore. Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematicians--Interviews.

Mathematicians.

Mathematics--Interviews.

Mathematics.

National University of Singapore. Institute for Mathematical Sciences--Interviews.

National University of Singapore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613144874

9781283144872

1283144875

9789814317597

9814317594

OCLC:

740435791