Yesterday and Long Ago by Vladimir I Arnold
History is not what we were wearing, It is how we had been utterly ruined. B.Pasternak.Spektorsky In the spring of 1999 the police found me lying unconscious with a broken forehead next to my bike in the outskirts of Paris, and delivered me to a hospital. It took a few weeks for French doctors to bring me to consciousness. But I did not recognize my son and said about my wife: this woman says that she is my wife. A doctor asked me how many years we had been married. I answered correctly, twenty four, and the doctor wrote down: arithmetical abilities are preserved. Later, French doctors told me that with such a trauma any Frenchman would succumb immediately. But then they added: Russians are very tough so you should live several months more. In a Western textbook I had read regarding effects of poisons: as for alcohol the lethal dose for Russians is several times higher. Perhaps the same applies to traumas.Vladimir Arnold is one of the great mathematical scientists of our time. He is famous for both the breadth and the depth of his work.
His first mathematical work, which he did being a third-year student, was the solution of the 13th Hilbert problem about superpositions of continuous functions. His early work on KAM (Kolmogorov, Arnold, Moser) theory solved some of the outstanding problems of mechanics that grew out of fundamental questions raised by Poincare and Birkhoff based on the discovery of complex motions in celestial mechanics. In particular, the discovery of invariant tori, their dynamical implications, and attendant resonance phenomena is regarded today as one of the deepest and most significant achievements in the mathematical sciences.
Arnold has been the advisor to more than 60 PhD students, and is famous for his seminar which thrived on his ability to discover new and beautiful problems. He is known all over the world for his textbooks which include the classics Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, and Ordinary Differential Equations, as well as the more recent Topological Methods m Hydrodynamics written together with Boris Khesin, and Lectures on Partial Differential Equations.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783540287346 |
| ISBN 10 | 3540287345 |
| Title | Yesterday and Long Ago |
| Author | Vladimir I Arnold |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG |
| Year published | 2006-10-11 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
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