On Mathematics, Complexity and Life - Henryk Woźniakowski, Bolesław Kacewicz, Leszek Plaskota (PDF) Koziegłowy

Tytuł On Mathematics, Complexity and Life Podtytuł An Interview with Henryk Woźniakowski by Bolesław Kacewicz and Leszek Plaskota Autorzy Henryk Woźniakowski, Bolesław Kacewicz, Leszek Plaskota Język angielski Wydawnictwo Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego Tłumaczenie Klara Wojtkowska ISBN 978-83-235-3458-7 Rok wydania 2018 Warszawa Wydanie 1 Liczba stron 209 Format pdf, mobi, epub Spis treści Professor Henryk Woźniakowski 9 1. The Most Important Thing – Information-Based Complexity 13 2. Childhood and School Years 17 3. Studies at the University of Warsaw 28 4. The Events of March 1968 40 5. First Years of Work 44 6. Numerical Methods in Poland – the Beginnings 49 7. PHD Thesis 58 8. Joseph Traub and Carnegie Mellon 60 9. Health Problems 69 10. Habilitation and Professorship 73 11. Sources and Beginnings of IBC 76 12. IBC in the 1980s 85 13. Discussions with Classical Numerical Analysts 94 14. The Time of the First Solidarity Movement 98 15. The Journal of Complexity 109 16. Monograph: Information-Based Complexity 112 17. Return to Poland 117 18. The Conferences in Dagstuhl 130 19. FoCM and Stephen Smale 138 20. Quantum Computations 147 21. Ian Sloan and his Associates 152 22. Erich Novak and Tractability 158 23. The Honoris Causa Doctorates 167 24. The People of IBC 171 25. The Smolensk Tragedy ´ 178 26. Life Today 185 27. The Future 194 List of Illustrations 204 About the Authors 209