Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century

D.V.Anosov: Dynamical Systems in the 1960s: The Hyperbolic Revolution.- V.I.Arnold: From Hilbert's Superposition Problem to Dynamical Systems.- A.A.Bolibruch: Inverse Monodromy Problems of the Analytic Theory of Differential Equations.- L.D.Faddeev: What Modern Mathematical Physics is Supposed to be.- R.V.Gamkrelidze: Discovery of the Maximum Principle.- Yu.S.Il'yashenko: The Qualitative Theory of Diferential Equations in the Plane.- P.S.Krasnoshchekov: Computerization... Let's be Careful.- V.A.Marchenko: The Generalized Shift, Transformation Operators, and Inverse Problems.- V.P.Maslov: Mathematics and the Trajectories of Typhoons.- Yu.V.Matiyasevich: Hilbert's Tenth Problem: Diophantine Equations in the Twentieth Century.- V.D.Milman: Observations on the Movement of People and Ideas in Twentieth-Century Mathematics.- E.F.Mishchenko: About Aleksandrov, Pontryagin and Their Scientific Schools.- Yu.V.Nesterenko: Hilbert's Seventh Problem.- S.M.Nikol'skii: The Great Kolmogorov.- A.N.Parshin: Numbers as Functions: The Development of an Idea in the Moscow School of Algebraic Geometry.- A.A.Razborov: The P=NP-Problem: A View from the 1990s.- L.P.Shil'nikov: Homoclinic Trajectories: From Poincaré to the Present.- A.N.Shiryaev: From 'Disorder' to Nonlinear Filtering and Martingale Theory.- Ya.G.Sinai: How Mathematicians and Physicists Found Each Other in the Theory of Dynamical Systems and in Statistical Mechanics.- V.M.Tikhomirov: Approximation Theory in the Twentieth Century.- A.M.Vershik: The Life and Fate of Functional Analysis in the Twentieth Century.- A.G.Vitushkin: Half a Century as one day.- V.S.Vladimirov: Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov - Mathematician by the Grace of God.- V.I.Yudovich: Global Solvability Versus Collapse in the Dynamics of an Incompressible Fluid.- Name Index

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Richard Beals, SIAM Review Vol. 48, Issue 3, p. 596-600, 2006