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By Stephen Smale, Felipe Cucker, Roderick S. C. Wong

Stephen smale is likely one of the nice mathematicians of the twentieth century. His paintings incorporates a wide selection of topics: differential topology, dynamical structures, calculus of diversifications, concept of computation, mechanics and mathematical economic climate. In some of these topics he has left the imprint of selection of primary effects. He has receive numerous differences, together with the Fields Medal, he Veblen Prize, the Chauvenet Prize, the von Neumann Award and the nationwide Medal of Science.

This precious ebook comprises the amassed papers of Stephen Smale. those are divided into 8 teams: topology; calculus of diversifications; dynamics; mechanics; economics; biology, electrical circuits and mathematical programming; thought of computation; miscellaneous. moreover, every one staff comprises one or articles by way of global leaders on its topic which touch upon the impression of Smale's paintings, and one other article through Smale along with his one retrospective perspectives.

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I was delighted to see this in­ terest; at that time, hardly anybody besides Lefschetz cared about structural stability. In those days, one burning question that 1 had much discussed with Lefschetz was: How to express in n-dimensions the "no saddle connection" condition of Andronov-Pontryagin? Before the end of 1958, Steve had the right answer to this question: The stable and unstable manifolds of singu­ larities and closed orbits should meet transversally. Simple-minded and rather trivial as this may look to the specialist today, the transversality condition applied to stable and unstable manifolds was a very crucial step in Steve's work in both topology and dynamical systems.

5-7. The problem of the average speed of the simplex method Reprinted with permission from Proceedings of the Xlth International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, edited by Bachem, Grotschel and Korte, Copyright © 1983 Springer-Verlag, pp. 530-539. On the average number of steps of the simplex method of linear programming Reprinted from Mathematical Programming, 27 (1983), pp. 241-262, Copyright © 1983, with permission from Elsevier Science. xxxi On the work of Steve Smale on the theory of computation (by M.

This was best done by examining the several areas of Smale's research in a single conference which crosses the traditional XIX 2 xx Research Themes boundary lines between mathematical subjects. In this way, a stimulating environment encouraged a fruitful exchange of ideas between mathemati­ cians working in topics that are formally separate, but which, as Smale's work demonstrates, have strong intellectual connections. Through this conference proceedings we hope that important new insights may be achieved into the extraordinary diversity and unity of mathematics.

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