Saunders Mac Lane, the Knight of Mathematics

We give an overview of several of the mathematical works of Gilles Lachaud and provide a historical context. This is interspersed with some personal anecdotes highlighting many facets of his personality.

Cem Tezer was a fastidious, meticulous, highly idiosyncratic and versatile scientist. Without him Turkish community of mathematics would be incomplete. Our sense of gratitude for his work in various areas of mathematics, history of sciences, literature, music and his encouragement to do mathematics for only its beauty was hardly unique and even unusual. After he passed away on 27 February 2020, while working actively at Middle East Technical University, the number of colleagu...

This paper, to appear in the ``Notices of the AMS'' 2024, is a modified version of a text already appeared in this journal, Feb. 2007 after a first publication in French, in ``La Gazette des Math{\'e}maticiens'' 97 (2003) on the occasion of Sato's reception of the 2002/2003 Wolf prize.

This is a revised version of the course notes handed to each participant at the limits of mathematics short course, Orono, Maine, June 1994.

This is a slightly edited translation of a paper in Dutch which appeared in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (5) 25 (2024), No.2, 87-90 on the occasion of I.G. Macdonald's death in 2023, and aimed at a very broad mathematical audience. First we review some of Macdonald's most important older results. Then we focus on the period 1985-1995 when Macdonald often visited the Netherlands and there was much interaction between his work, notably the Macdonald polynomials, and the work by ...

Hans Grauert died in September of 2011. This article reviews his life in mathematics and recalls some detail his major accomplishments.

Laudation delivered at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin following the award of the Fields Medal to Richard Borcherds.

Recollections of the Austrian geometer Heinrich Brauner (in German).

Interview with Hyman Bass, whose mathematical life has spanned seven decades.

This brief text is in memory of Professor Ivan Kupka. It presents his vision, scientific life, his interest in mathematics and our join collaboration.