Ari Laptev (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden), Editor

European Congress of Mathematics, Stockholm, June 27 -July 2, 2004

ISBN 3-03719-009-4
June 2005, 900 pages, hardcover, 16.5 cm x 23.5 cm.

The European Congress of Mathematics, held every four years, has established itself as a major international mathematical event. Following those in Paris, 1992, Budapest, 1996 and Barcelona, 2000, the Fourth European Congress of Mathematics took place in Stockholm, Sweden, June 27 to July 2, 2004 with 913 participants from 65 countries. Apart from seven plenary and thirty three invited lectures, there were six "Science Lectures" covering the most relevant aspects of mathematics in science and technology. Moreover, twelve projects of the EU Research Training Networks in Mathematics and Information Sciences, as well as Programmes from the European Science Foundation in Physical and Engineering Sciences were presented. Ten EMS Prizes were awarded to young European mathematicians who have made a particular contribution to the progress of mathematics. Five of the prize winners were independently chosen by the 4ECM Scientific Committee as plenary or invited speakers. The other five prize winners gave their lectures in parallel sessions. Most of these contributions are now collected in this volume, providing a permanent record of so much that is best in mathematics today.

Plenary lectures

Francois Golse (Paris, France)
Francesco Guerra (Roma, Italy)
Johan Hastad (Stockholm, Sweden)
Andrei Okounkov (Princeton, USA)
Oded Schramm (Microsoft Research, USA)
Zoltan Szabo (Princeton, USA)
Claire Voisin (Paris, France)


Invited Lectures

Giovanni Alberti (Pisa, Italy)
Denis Auroux (MIT, USA and Palaiseau, France)
Stefano Bianchini (Rome, Italy)
Francois Bouchut (Paris, France)
Brian Bowditch (Southampton, UK)
Ehud Friedgut (Jerusalem, Israel)
Patrick Gerard (Orsay, France)
Alice Guionnet (Lyon, France)
Stefan Helmke (Kyoto, Japan)
Helge Holden (Trondheim, Norway)
Rupert Klein (Berlin, Germany)
Jan Krajicek (Prague, Czech Republic)
Daan Krammer (Warwick, UK)
Elon Lindenstrauss (Clay Mathematics Institute, USA)
Tomasz Luczak (Poznan, Poland)
Terry Lyons (Oxford, UK)
Pascal Massart (Orsay, France)
Preda Mihailescu (Paderborn, Germany)
Mircea Mustata (Clay Mathematics Institute, USA)
Kieran O'Grady (Roma , Italy)
Grigori Olshanski (Moscow, Russia)
Imre Ruzsa (Budapest, Hungary)
Yehuda Shalom (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Maria Shcherbina (Kharkov, Ukraine)
Stanislav Smirnov (Stockholm, Sweden)
Mikhail Sodin (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Xavier Tolsa (Barcelona, Spain)
Anna-Karin Tornberg (New York, USA and Stockholm, Sweden)
Vilmos Totik (Tampa, USA and Szeged, Hungary)
Michael Weiss (Aberdeen, UK)
Wendelin Werner (Orsay, France)
Umberto Zannier (Venice, Italy)


Network lectures

Aline Bonami (Orleans, France)
Yann Brenier (Nice, France)
Jean Esterle (Bordeaux, France)
Bernard Helffer (Orsay, France)
Frank den Hollander (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Jonathan Keating (Bristol, UK)
Christian Krattenthaler (Lyon, France)
Marina Monsurro (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Jan Philip Solovej (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Miles Reid (Warwick, UK)
Jakob Stix (Bonn, Germany)


Prize Lectures

Franck Barthe (Toulouse, France)
Paul Biran (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Sylvia Serfaty (New York, USA)
Warwick Tucker (Uppsala, Sweden)
Otmar Venjakob (Heidelberg, Germany)

Stegmaier, Werner (Hrsg.)

Felix Hausdorff - Gesammelte Werke Band VII
Philosophisches Werk. "Sant' Ilario. Gedanken aus der Landschaft Zarathustras" "Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese" Essays zu Nietzsche

2004, XXI, 920 S., Geb.
ISBN: 3-540-20836-4

Band VII der Gesammelten Werke F. Hausdorffs enthalt den Aphorismenband ?Santf Ilario. Gedanken aus der Landschaft Zarathustras" sowie das erkenntniskritische Buch ?Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese". Beide Werke hatte Hausdorff unter dem Pseudonym Paul Mongre veroffentlicht. Der Titel des Aphorismenbandes und die Form deuten auf Nahe zu Nietzsche, im Werk selbst zeigt sich aber auch skeptische Distanz. Im letzten Teil von "Santf Ilario" skizziert Hausdorff eine ganz eigene Deutung von Nietzsches Wiederkunftslehre, die er im ?Chaos in kosmischer Auslese" weiter ausfuhrte. In diesem Buch oszilliert das Denken von Welt in ihrer Zeitlichkeit und Kontingenz zwischen immanenter und transzendenter Perspektive, um letztere zu destruieren und damit jede Form von Metaphysik endgultig zuruckzuweisen. Hausdorff fuhrt dieses Programm einer radikalen Metaphysikkritik insbesondere fur die Kategorien Zeit und Raum durch und verwendet dabei Metaphern, denen Begriffe einer damals ganz neuen Theorie, der Mengenlehre Georg Cantors, zugrunde lagen.

In einer historischen Einfuhrung des Herausgebers wird Hausdorffs philosophisches Werk in die Geschichte des philosophischen Denkens eingeordnet und zu den Diskursen seiner Zeit in Beziehung gesetzt. Beide Bucher werden daruber hinaus sehr eingehend kommentiert. Den Band beschliesen drei bemerkenswerte Essays, die Hausdorff ebenfalls unter Pseudonym in angesehenen Zeitschriften erscheinen lies und die sich mit der Publikation von Nietzsches Nachlas, mit Nietzsches Wiederkunftslehre und (sehr kritisch) mit dem Nietzsche Buch ?Der Wille zur Macht" auseinandersetzten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Einleitung des Herausgebers. - Paul Mongre (Felix Hausdorff): Sant' Ilario. Gedanken aus der Landschaft Zarthustras. - Paul Mongre (Felix Hausdorff): Selbstanzeige von Sant' Ilario. - Kommentar zu Sant' Ilario. - Paul Mongre (Felix Hausdorff): Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese. - Paul Mongre (Felix Hausdorff): Selbstanzeige von Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese. - Kommentar zu Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese. - Paul Mongre (Felix Hausdorff): Nietzsches Wiederkunft des Gleichen. - Paul Mongre (Felix Hausdorff): Nietzsches Lehre von der Wiederkunft des Gleichen. - Paul Mongre (Felix Hausdorff): Der Wille zur Macht. - Personenverzeichnis.

Donald E. Knuth

Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 3,
The: Generating All Combinations and Partitions

ISBN: 0-201-85394-9
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 160 pp

Description

At last, an answer to one of the most asked questions in computer science: When is Volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming going to be published?

To begin the fourth and later volumes of the set, and to update parts of the existing three, Knuth has created a series of small books called fascicles, which will be published t regular intervals. Each fascicle will encompass a section or more of wholly new or evised material. Ultimately, the content of these fascicles will be rolled up into the comprehensive, final versions of each volume, and the enormous undertaking that began in 1962 will be complete.

This booklet is Fascicle 3 of The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4: Combinatorial Algorithms. As explained in the preface to Fascicle 1 of Volume 1, I'm circulating the material in this preliminary form because I know that the task of completing Volume 4 will take many years; I can't wait for people to begin reading what I've written so far and to provide valuable feedback.

A sneak peek at the eagerly anticipated Volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming
The definitive treatment of the widely misunderstood topic of combinations and partitions
Future classic material from one of the most famous names in computer science!

Preface