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ARNOLD: Swimming Against the Tide

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Boris A. Khesin, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Serge L. Tabachnikov, ICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI, Editors

Publication: AMS Non-Series Monographs
Publication Year: 2014; Volume 86
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-1699-7 (print); 978-1-4704-1934-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mbk/086

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Table of Contents

Front/Back Matter

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Part 1. By Arnold

• Chapter 1. Arnold in his own words
• Chapter 2. From Hilbert’s superposition problem to dynamical systems
• Chapter 3. Recollections
• Chapter 4. Polymathematics: Is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?
• Chapter 5. A mathematical trivium
• Chapter 6. Comments on “A Mathematical Trivium”
• Chapter 7. About Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin

Photographs of V. I. Arnold

• Photo Section I: 1940s-1970s
• Photo Section II: 1980s–1990s
• Photo Section III: 2000s

Part 2. About Arnold

• Chapter 8. To whom it may concern
• Chapter 9. Remembering Vladimir Arnold: Early years
• Chapter 10. Vladimir I. Arnold
• Chapter 11. Memories of Vladimir Arnold
• Chapter 12. Dima Arnold in my life
• Chapter 13. V. I. Arnold, as I have seen him
• Chapter 14. My encounters with Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
• Chapter 15. On V. I. Arnold and hydrodynamics
• Chapter 16. Arnold’s seminar, first years
• Chapter 17. Topology in Arnold’s work
• Chapter 18. Arnold and symplectic geometry
• Chapter 19. Some recollections of Vladimir Igorevich
• Chapter 20. Remembering V. I. Arnold
• Chapter 21. Several thoughts about Arnold
• Chapter 22. Vladimir Igorevich Arnold: A view from the rear bench

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