This is just a quick note that Elaine McKinnon Riehm has published a nice article in the Fields Notes (MAY 2010 | VOLUME 10:3, pp. 1-2) entitled “The Fields Medal: Serendipity and J.L. Synge.” Riehm is co-author of an upcoming book on John Charles Fields. Her writings on John Charles Fields and the Fields medal [...]
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English Translation of the First Part of Niels Henrik Abel’s ‘Recherches sur les fonctions elliptiques’ with Short Historical Introduction
During my first year as a graduate student in the mathematics department at Simon Fraser University (circa 2005-2006), I undertook a reading course, one aim of which was to translate the first part of N. H. Abel’s groundbreaking work on elliptic integrals1 from the French into English. This translation was subsequently published with a short [...]
John Charles Fields: A Sketch of His Life and Mathematical Work
Some of you may know that I wrote my Master of Science thesis in the history of mathematics under the supervision of Prof. Tom Archibald of Simon Fraser University. My thesis was entitled “John Charles Fields: A Sketch of His Life and Mathematical Work“. Here is the abstract: Every four years at the International Congress [...]
