Remembering Jovan Karamata
This is a survey of the existing digital collections of French mathematical literature, run by non-profit organizations. This includes research monographs, serials, proceedings, Ph. D. theses, collected works, books and personal websites.
In the paper we present a selected variety of problems studied by Professor Jerzy Zabczyk. Important part of Prof. Zabczyk's scientific activity was devoted to his PhD students. He has promoted 9 PhD students: Tomasz Bielecki, Jarosław Sobczyk, Łukasz Stettner and Gianmario Tessitore work mostly in control and its applications to mathematical finance, whereas the research of Anna Chojnowska-Michalik, Wojciech Jachimiak, Anna Milian, Szymon Peszat and Anna Rusinek is concentrated mostly on stochastic...
The Śulba sūtras, or "Rules of the cord", are intended to lay down the rules of demarcation of various sacrificial altars, pandals and places for sacred fire. This part of Vedic culture contains unique, just about three thousand years old ritual geometry. Constructions, such as addition or subtraction of squares or area-preserving transformations of figures, are performed with the use of a rope and wooden poles. This article presents some of the geometric rules described in the mentioned texts and...