Our meeting Where will the next generation of UK mathematicians come from? will concentrate on the education policy issues arising from our desire to nurture future mathematical talent. However, a brief look at the programme of the meeting shows that no discussion of what mathematical abilities and talent are is scheduled. I hope that we have a shared understanding sufficient for a meaningful c...

First of all a few words of introduction . Ulam was a friend and collaborator of mine for about 50 years . We had innumerable mathematical and political discussions and have several joint papers . While discussing mostly our joint work I will neglect his work in physics, biology, computers and computer science . Ulam wrote a very successful autobiography [71 and I will mention only a few incide...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, Uludağ University, Görükle Campus, Bursa, 16059, Turkey Abstract Biography of Professor Hari M. Srivastava. This article is being published in each of the four Special Issues of the SpringerOpen journals, Advances in Difference Equations, Boundary Value Problems, Fixed Point Theory and Applications and Journal of Ine...

History of Black Box The initial idea of Black Box can be traced to two-port networks (quadripoles) that were created by a German mathematician, Franz Breisig, in 1921.1 In 1941, twenty years later, Wilhelm Cauer, another German mathematician and scientist, applied this idea in electronic circuit theory.2 Norbert Wiener, an American mathematician and philosopher, defined a Black Box to be an un...

In the paper, authors present a brief overview and survey of scientific work by Chinese mathematician Feng Qi his coauthors.