Jonathan Borwein's Talks

Some of Jonathan Borwein's Presentations


In HTML or POSTSCRIPT

also


PREPRINTS & VITAE


JMB HOME & CECM HOME

  • Postscript and PDF Lectures

      • 1. The Ramanujan AGM Continued Fractions and Dynamics
      in       PDF and the corresponding Preprint.
      (February 2004)
      9. Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century
       in PDF and the Fergusons' 2003 Mekler Lecture
      David Bailey's talk and the Experimental Math web site.
      (October 2003)
      8. Three Open Problems in Honour of Petar Kenderov
       in Acrobat.
      (September 2003)
      7. A One Function Variational Principle and Applications
       in PDF and the corresponding Preprint.
      (September 2003)
      6. The Ramanujan AGM Continued Fraction
      in PDF and the corresponding Preprint.
      (July 2003)
      5. Advanced Collaborative and Visualization Environments
      in PDF and Power Point
      (July 2003)
      4. Nurturing New Mathematicians: Some Advice on Advising
      in Active PDF.
      (June 2003)
      3. Mathematics by Experiment (An introduction) and Experimentation in Mathematics (Further examples)
      in Postscript and in Acrobat. Forthcoming Books (Sept 2003) and some Related Links
      (March--June 2003)
      2. The life of Pi: history and computation
      in Acrobat. Some Related Links, Maple-HTML and Maple Worksheets.
      (February--June 2003)
      1. The Fields, Nevanlinna and Abel Prizes: Chasing the Mathematical Prize
      in Acrobat. Some Related Links
      (February 2003)
      8. Digitizing the Entire Mathematics Literature: What Wild Surmise
      in ppower4 (PDF)
      (December 2002)
      7. Welcome to the SFU CoLab
      in ppower4 (PDF)
      (September 2002)
      6. The Next Four Years (in electronic publishing)
      in Postscript and Acrobat. [Associated presentation on CEIC (26 August) at ICM.]
      (August 2002)
      5. The Experimental Mathematician: A Computational Guide to the Mathematical Unknown
      in Postscript and Acrobat. Some Related Links
      (July-August 2002)
      4. Bregman Monotone Optimization Methods and Related Convex Functions
      in Postscript and Acrobat.
      (June 2002)
      3. The Differentiability of Monotone Functions on Separable Banach Space
      in Postscript and Acrobat.
      (April 2002)
      2. The Experimental Mathematician: The Pleasure of Discovery and the Role of Proof
      in Postscript and Acrobat. Some Related Links
      (April 2002)
      1. Mathematical Marvels: Fields of Dreams
      in Postscript and Acrobat. Some Related Links
      (March 2002)
      6. Collaborative Online Mathematics: `Wishing and Hoping'
      in Postscript and Acrobat.
      (October 2001)
      5. Why Math is (Still) Hard: Challenges in Mathematical Computing
      in Postscript and Acrobat.
      (September 2001)
      4. The International Math Union's Electronic Initiatives
      in HTML and Postscript.
      (September 2001)
      3. Dirichlet Series of Squares of Sums of Squares
      in Postscript and Acrobat.
      (September 2001. Revised April 2002)
      2. Maximum Entropy-Type Methods and Convex Programming
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (April 2001)
      1. Aesthetics for the Working Mathematician
      in Postscript and Acrobat. Associated paper in Acrobat
      (April-September 2001)
      6. Multi-variable Sinc Integrals and the Volumes of Polyhedra
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (December 2000)
      5. Partially Smooth Variational Analysis -- and Variations
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (July 2000)
      4. Generic Properties of Generalized Gradients
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (Revised June 2000)
      3. The Impact of Technology on the Doing of Mathematics: in Postscript, and Acrobat with Links.
      Related Paper in Acrobat
      ( Revised April 2000)
      2. Experimental Mathematics and Exact Computation
      in Postscript and Acrobat with Links (see also HTML) and associated Maple worksheets
      1. More General Examples
      2. More Specialized Examples
        (Lattice Reduction and Multiple Zeta Codes -- needed for some examples)
      (save as `file.mws' and open in (x)maple)
      ( PDF March 2000. Update of 1999 #6 and #7; postscript update September 2001)
      1. Next Generation Mathematical Telelearning Systems
      in Acrobat with Links
      (November 1999--January 2000)
      8. Partially Smooth Variational Analysis
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (August 1999)
      7. Experimental Mathematics and Exact Computation
      in Postscript and Acrobat with associated Maple worksheet
      (Lattice Reduction and Multiple Zeta Codes -- needed for some examples)
      (save as `file.mws' and open in (x)maple)
      (July 1999)
      6. Numeric & Computational Mathematics at the Undergraduate Level:
      Talk in Postscript and Paper in Acrobat (see also HTML) and associated Maple worksheets
      1. More Elementary Examples
      2. Less Elementary Examples
        (Lattice Reduction and Multiple Zeta Codes -- needed for some examples)
      (save as `file.mws' and open in (x)maple)
      (May 1999 -- April 2000)
      5. The Impact of Technology on the Doing of Mathematics: Talk in Postscript and Paper in Acrobat
      (May 1999)
      4. Maximizing Surprise
      in Postscript and Acrobat and the Aesthetics of Suprise (Mary-Anne Williams)
      (April--August 1999)
      3. Generic Properties of Generalized Gradients
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (April 1999--June 2000)
      2. Convex Analysis Minicourse
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (March 1999)
      1. Experimental Mathematics: Insight from Computation
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (January 1999)
      5. Regularity, Normality and Tangency:
      Part I (Projections)
             in Postscript and Acrobat
      Part II (Examples and Theorems)
             in Postscript and Acrobat
      (November 1998)
      4. Some New Mean-Value Theorems
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (October 1998)
      3. High Performance Symbolic Computing: a Mathematician's Perspective
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (September 1998)
      2. Multifunctional and Functional Analytic Techniques in Nonsmooth Analysis
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (July 1998)
      1. Projection Algorithms and Monotone Operators
      in Postscript and Acrobat
      (February 1998)
      5. Symbolically Discovered Identities for (zeta(4N+3) and for)
      Multidimensional Polylogarithms
      (July 1997)
      4. Three Adventures: Symbolically Discovered Identities
      in Postscript and Acrobat (HTML below)
      (July 1997)
      3. Partially Smooth Variational Analysis
      (May 1997, revised 1999)
      2. Multidimensional Polylogarithmic Sums: Postscript and PDF
      (April-May 1997)
      1. Mathematical Publishing on the Web: Postscript and PDF
      (Sept 1996, April-June 1997)
      5. Convex Analysis and its Applications
      (August 1996)
      4. Khintchine's Constant and its Computation
      (June 1995)
      3. Experimental Mathematics : Three Examples
      (June 1995)
      2. Lattice Sums and Madelung's Constant
      (May 1995)
      1. Virtual Research: the Changing Face of Mathematics (PDF below)
      (February 1995-July 1997)
      5. Viscosity Solutions and Control Problems
      (December 1994)
      4. Maximum Entropy Optimization
      (August 1994)
      3. Subderivatives: a Survey
      (February 1994)
      2. Mean Iterations: and Experimentally Induced Identities
      (August 1993)
      1. Iterative Methods for Inverse Problems*
      (February 1992)
      [ '*' files are less stable!]

    1. HTML Lectures

      2. The International Math Union's Electronic Initiatives
      (July 2001)
      The International Math Union's Electronic Initiatives
      (September 2001, extended version)
      Possible Futures for Mathematics on the Web (Loki Jorgenson)
      (June 1999)
      Inverse Symbolic Computation: Empirical Mathematics (Revised)
      (September 1998)
      Doing Math on the Web: With a Piece of Pi
      (March 1998)
      Inverse Symbolic Computation: Empirical Mathematics
      (September 1997)
      FPSAC'97: Three Adventures
      (July 1997)
      A Lecture and Much More About Pi
      (May-October 1997)
      Doing Mathematics on the Web (Three related talks and The Laird Lecture)
      (March 1997 and October 1997)

    2. PDF Lectures

      3. Virtual Research: The Changing Face of Mathematics
      Introduction, Conclusion & Full Text (39 pages, PDF)
      (February 1995-July 1997)
      Also: Full Text (39 pages, PS)

    3. Assorted Extras

      4. A few MAPLE pictures of Torus Knots

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