Algebraic geometers

Dmitry Gudkov (mathematician)

Dmitrii Andreevich Gudkov (1918–1992; alternative spelling Dmitry) was a Soviet mathematician famous for his work on Hilbert's sixteenth problem and the related Gudkov's conjecture in algebraic geometry. He was a student of Aleksandr Andronov. (Wikipedia).

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Interview at Cirm: Olga Paris-Romaskevich

Interview at Cirm: Olga Paris-Romaskevich is a mathematician specializing in dynamic systems. She is interested in mathematical billiards and integrable systems - mathematical systems that come from physics. She is also very interested in popularizing fundamental research to the general pu

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Interview at CIRM : Maria Chudnovsky

Maria Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematics at Princeton University. She grew up in Russia and Israel, studying at the Technion and received her Ph.D. in 2003 from Princeton under the supervision of Paul Seymour. She moved to Columbia after being a Clay Mathematics In

From playlist English interviews - Interviews en anglais

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Yakov Zel'dovich and Cosmology - Rashid Sunyaev

Renowned physicist Rashid Sunyaev delivers a talk on the life and work of Yakov Zel'dovich, his longtime collaborator, mentor, and friend, during the launch of the Centre for the Universe at Perimeter Institute on Monday, November 20, 2017. Read more about the Centre here: http://bit.ly/

From playlist Cosmology

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Maxim Kontsevich, Equations for stability­

Maxim Kontsevich, IHÉS, France Equations for stability­

From playlist Conférence en l'honneur de Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

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Борис Н. Петров - Boris N. Petrov: Space Pioneer, Automatic Control Engineer(USSR)

The life of automatic control engineer Boris N. Petrov, a pioneer of the Russian space program. Борис Н. Петров Solved automatic control issues in rockets and ballistic missiles, He published many papers on control science with Vladislav Rutkovsky who narrates the story of his life. Leade

From playlist Russian Engineering

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40 Most Produced Military Aircraft Comparision 3D

Guess the country that produced the most produced military aircraft :) Featuring Junkers Ju 87 -6,000 Messerschmitt Bf 110 -6,150 Handley Page Halifax -6,176 Ilyushin Il-10 - 6,226 Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 -6,258 Airco DH.4 -6,295 Ilyushin Il-28 - 6,635+ Tupolev SB -6,656 Polikarp

From playlist Comparison

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SIAM AN10: Dmitri Tymoczko Discusses Geometry in Music

What could be a better medium to communicate math to the public than the universal language of music? Ever since Pythagoras used numerical terms to express intervals between notes and derived musical tones from geometrical patterns, mathematicians have linked music to numbers. At the SIAM

From playlist What is math used for?

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Assessing the human rights situation in Russia through the cases of persecuted academics

Panel co-organized by the Azat Miftakhov Committee and Memorial Human Rights Center with the participation of mathematicians and human rights organizations.

From playlist Azat Miftakhov Days Against the War

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Reinventing the magic log wheel: How was this missed for 400 years?

Today is about reinventing a really cool mathematical wheel and its many different slide rule incarnations, just using a rubber band. 00:00 Intro 04:40 Multiply! 06:02 Pi times e 07:15 Divide! 08:39 Sliding rules 10:53 Apollo 11:08 Star Trek 11:45 Rubber band proof 13:13 Logarithms 16:50

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The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor

Dig into the mystery of Nicolas Bourbaki— one of the most influential mathematicians of all time… who never actually existed. -- When Nicolas Bourbaki applied to the American Mathematical Society in the 1950s, he was already one of the most influential mathematicians of his time. He’d pu

From playlist New TED-Ed Originals

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Союз - Аполлон / Space: Apollo-Soyuz Leader Boris Petrov

Control engineer Boris N. Petrov was the leader on the Russian side of the Apollo-Soyuz Program 1975. His work included solving fuel consumption problems for rockets and a myriad of other technical issues. The Edison Tech Center interviewed Vladislav Rutkovsky - living pioneer in Russian

From playlist Russian Engineering

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Dmitry A. Lyakhov 05/04/18

Algorithmic Lie Symmetry Analysis and Group Classification for Ordinary Differential Equations

From playlist Spring 2018

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Talking BIG Jobs with Dr. Sumanth Swaminathan (Part 2 of 7)

The Talking BIG Jobs Interview Series gives students an opportunity to interview mathematical scientists who work in business, industry, and government (B.I.G.). In this inaugural episode, Ph.D. student, Sarah Minucci, asks Sumanth Swaminathan, CEO of Iterex, hard-hitting questions about

From playlist Talking BIG Jobs Interview Series

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Ancient Aliens: Extraterrestrial Geniuses (Season 9) | History

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe geniuses are able to access an otherworldly pool of knowledge given to us by our ancient ancestors in this clip from Season 9, Episode 4, "The Genius Factor". #AncientAliens Subscribe for more from Ancient Aliens and other great HISTORY shows: http:

From playlist Ancient Aliens: The Alien Connection to Famous Figures | History

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Intrinsic Diophantine approximation (Lecture 3) by Amos Nevo

PROGRAM SMOOTH AND HOMOGENEOUS DYNAMICS ORGANIZERS: Anish Ghosh, Stefano Luzzatto and Marcelo Viana DATE: 23 September 2019 to 04 October 2019 VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore Ergodic theory has its origins in the the work of L. Boltzmann on the kinetic theory of gases.

From playlist Smooth And Homogeneous Dynamics

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The Many Deaths of Tsarevich Dmitry

During Russia's "Time of Troubles" at the turn of the seventeenth century, a prince just wouldn't stay dead. The History Guy remembers the many death of Tsarevich Dmitry. This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and

From playlist Europe

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Dmitry Kleinbock: Shrinking targets on homogeneous spaces and improving Dirichlet's Theorem

Abstract: Optimal results on the improvements to Dirichlet's Theorem are obtained in the one-dimensional case. For simultaneous approximation the problem is open. I will describe reduction of the problem to dynamics both in one-dimensional case (via continued fractions) and for higher dime

From playlist Dynamical Systems and Ordinary Differential Equations

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Mikhail Kapranov - Algebra of the infrared and secondary polytopes

Mikhail KAPRANOV (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Tokyo)

From playlist Algèbre, Géométrie et Physique : une conférence en l'honneur

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Hilbert's sixteenth problem | Gudkov's conjecture | Algebraic geometry