Fields Medallists' Lectures

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Although the Fields Medal does not have the same public recognition asthe Nobel Prizes, they share a similar intellectual standing. It isrestricted to one field that of mathematics and an age limitof 40 has become an accepted tradition. Mathematics has in the mainbeen interpreted as pure mathematics, and this is not so unreasonablesince major contributions in some applied areas can be (and have been)recognized with Nobel Prizes.  Read more... PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; RECIPIENTS OF FIELDS MEDALS; CONTENTS; Fields Medallists' Lectures 2nd Edition; LARS VALERIAN AHLFORS; QUASICONFORMAL MAPPINGS, TEICHMÜLLER SPACES, AND KLEINIAN GROUPS; THE WORK OF L. SCHWARTZ; CALCUL INFINITESIMAL STOCHASTIQUE; OBITUARY: KUNIHIKO KODAIRA; ON KÄHLER VARIETIES OF RESTRICTED TYPE*; THE WORK OF K.F. ROTH; RATIONAL APPROXIMATIONS TO ALGEBRAIC NUMBERS; THE WORK OF R. THOM; HÖRMANDER'S WORK ON LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; LOOKING FORWARD FROM ICM 1962; L'OEUVRE DE MICHAEL F. ATIYAH; THE INDEX OF ELLIPTIC OPERATORS. SUR LES TRAVAUX DE STEPHEN SMALEA SURVEY OF SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN DIFFERENTIAL TOPOLOGY; THE WORK OF ALAN BAKER; EFFECTIVE METHODS IN THE THEORY OF NUMBERS; EFFECTIVE METHODS IN DIOPHANTINE PROBLEMS; EFFECTIVE METHODS IN DIOPHANTINE PROBLEMS. II; EFFECTIVE METHODS IN THE THEORY OF NUMBERS / DIOPHANTINE PROBLEMS; THE WORK OF SERGE NOVIKOV; RÔLE OF INTEGRABLE MODELS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICS; THE WORK OF DAVID MU.