| Martin Andler teaches mathematics at the
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin; he has held visiting positions
at MIT and Rutgers University. His research focuses on two main areas:
representation theory of Lie groups, and the history of 20th century
mathematics. He is the chairman
of Animath, a French organisation
promoting mathematics for kids.
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Mario Bonk is a professor of mathematics at the University of
California at Los Angeles. He is mainly interested in the
interactions between analysis and geometry, particularly in
quasiconformal aspects. He is a firm believer that mathematics
should be communicated, which he does extremely well. When he's
not doing math, he relaxes while training for marathons.
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John Conway is one of the most prolific mathematicians. He is probably best known for the "Game of Life," which he invented, as well as for "combinatorial game theory" that he developed (partly in collaboration): a very natural and simple definition that lead to a class of games with incredibly rich structure, containing the now-famous "surreal numbers." He has made substantial contributions to many other areas of mathematics, for instance group theory. He greatly enjoys spending time and discussing with students.
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Dmitry Fuchs is a professor of mathematics at University of
California, Davis. He works in topology and algebra, with occasional
excursions to other fields, most lately, closed geodesics on
Platonic solids and closed billiard trajectories in regular
polygons; this research was based on computer experimentation. He
authored and co-authored several books, including "Mathematical
Omnibus", a collection of 30 lectures on classic mathematics, which
was recently translated into German and Russian.
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Étienne Ghys is a French mathematician. His research focuses mainly on
geometry and dynamical systems. He also expresses much interest in
the historical development of mathematical ideas, especially the
contribution of Henri Poincaré. He co-authored the computer
graphics mathematical movie Dimensions: A walk through
mathematics. He is is currently a CNRS "directeur de recherche" at
the École normale supérieurein Lyon. He is also a member of the
French Academy of Sciences.
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John Hubbard is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, NY,
and the Université de Provence in Marseille, France. Together with
Adrien Douady, he is one of the pioneers of holomorphic dynamics;
together, they developed the groundbreaking theory of complex
dynamics and especially the Mandelbrot set. He has very broad
interests in mathematics, and he won several awards for his
inspiring lecturing style.
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Victor Kleptsyn is a researcher at CNRS, in the Institute of
Mathematical Research of Rennes. His working themes are mainly
dynamical systems and geometry. His belief is that most arguments,
theorems, and proofs in the mathematics should be visual, and
easily explicable, at least on the "why should it be true" level
of explanation.
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Dierk Schleicher is professor of mathematics at Jacobs University
Bremen. He obtained his PhD at Cornell University, NY, and held
visiting positions in Berkeley, Stony Brook, Paris,
Toronto, and München. His main research interests
are in dynamical systems and chaos, especially in holomorphic
dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, and the dynamics of Newton's
root-finding method. He was one of the main organizers of the 50th
International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2009 in Bremen.
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Sergei Tabachnikov is a professor of mathematics at Penn State
University. He works in geometry, topology, and dynamics - one of
his favorite topics is mathematical billiards. He also likes to
combine theoretical research with computer experiments. He
(co)authored several books including "Mathematical Omnibus," a
collection of 30 lectures on classic mathematics. Sergei is the
Director of the semester-long MASS (Mathematics Advanced Study
Semesters) Program at Penn State.
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Tadashi Tokieda was born in Japan and educated in France, he obtained
his Ph. D. at Princeton University; he works at the University of
Cambridge. He is interested in physics, particularly related to
toys. Scholar and polyglot (in addition to Japanese, French, and
English, he knows Greek, Latin, classical Chinese, Finnish,
Spanish, and Russian), Tadashi is specialized in the
popularization of mathematics and physics and is an outstanding
communicator.
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Oleg Viro works in low-dimensional topology (knot theory) and real
algebraic geometry. Oleg was educated in St. Petersburg (then
Leningrad), worked in USA and Sweden; currently he is a professor
of mathematics at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He
firmly believes in unity of mathematics, see his lecture on the subject.
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Wendelin Werner is a probabilist with a unique way to explain
difficult themes in an elementary manner. He is currently a
professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and part-time at
the École Normale Supérieure. His most famous work revolves around
planar models from statistical physics, for which he received a
Fields medal in 2006.
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Don Zagier is an American mathematician whose main area of work is
number theory. In 1976, aged only 24, he became Germany's youngest
professor. Among many other things, he is known for discovering a
short and elementary proof of Fermat's theorem on sums of two
squares: it consists of a single sentence. He is currently one of
the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn,
Germany, and a professor at the Collège de France in Paris,
France.
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Günter M. Ziegler is a professor of mathematics at Freie Universität,
Berlin. His work connects discrete mathematics, geometry, topology,
and optimization. He received numerous prizes, among them a 2001
Leibniz Prize for his research and the Communicator Award in the
year 2008, when he was a co-organizer of the "Year of Mathematics"
in Germany. His writing includes "Proofs from THE BOOK," which has
been published in 14 different languages by now.
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