Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek (alias: Booss-Bavnbek)

For the official university home page with list of recent publications, see

https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/persons/booss/publications/These pages are created in support of teaching and research on geometric aspects of partial differential equations, environmental modelling, and military studies.

Mathematics and other Matters:

·         Diverse areas of current mathematical interest, exposed in a modest way for friends, colleagues, and a general public

o    Impressions of ICM 2002 Beijing , ICM 2006 Madrid, ICM 2010 Hyderabad (all in Danish)

o    From the Ukraine conflict to the number π: Interview in the Danish Radio P1 (interviewer Dorte Krogsgaard) on π-Day 3/14_15  Link, also (MP3)

o    Symplectic Structures in Geometric Analysis, Minisymposium no. 35, 22-23 September, 2015, Hamburg, http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/DMV2015/acceptedminisymposia.html

o    Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm-Djursholm, Conference on “Interfaces between Geometric Analysis and Mathematical Physics" from July 4, 2016 to July 8, 2016.

·         Farewell talk 2014-12-17 Mathematics: Easy and hard - How? (extended slides). Paper of 16 pages submitted to The Mathematical Intelligencer

o    Official invitation

o    Short original slides

o    Talk, unedited (MP3)

o    Transcript (PDF)

o    Discussion, unedited (MP3)

o    Key references

1.      Lagrange Obituary Testimony (edited and commented by Grattann-Guinness), 1814, 22 pages

2.      Booß and Krickeberg (eds.), Mathematisierung der Einzelwissenschaften, 1976, 363 pages

3.      Booß-Bavnbek, On the difficulties of acquiring mathematical experience, 2014, 24 pages

4.      F.K. Kaul, Bonner Stduenten 1969, 1972, 52 pages

5.      M. Otte, Analytische Philosophie - Anspruch und Wirklichkeit eines Programms, 2014, Leseprobe, 36 pages. The full length ebook of 480 pages can be lent at RUb or here (temporarily)

·         Books and Articles

o    Zentralblatt Math Database

o    Zentralblatt Math Didactics Database

o    Math Reviews Database

o    Diabetologia Review

o    Google Scholar (selection) Database

o    Ongoing work (outdated): Books and papers in print

o    Selected old stuff: Favourite books and papers, reprinted

o    Science Citation Index (Feb. 2005) 93 Traces

o    arXiv Here, 21 papers (Aug. 2015)

o    Library Genesis Here , 10 books (Aug. 2015)


Case Global Analysis and Physics (not updated):

·         Index Theory with Applications to Mathematics and Physics on the Occasion of the Abel Prize 2004 for M. F. Atiyah and I. M. Singer - International Book Project (with D. Bleecker) Call for Readers!

·         Spectral Geometry of Manifolds with Boundary and Decomposition of Manifolds, Workshop August 6-9, 2003 (Søminestation, Holbæk Fjord)

·         Spectral Invariants of Operators of Dirac Type on Partitioned Manifolds, Draft (PDF)

·         The Determinant of Elliptic Boundary Problems for Dirac Operators, Reader (PDF)

·         Unbounded Fredholm Operators and Spectral Flow (with M. Lesch and J. Phillips) http://arXiv.org/abs/math.FA/0108014

·         Aspects of Symplectic Analysis, Workshop March 26-28, 2001 (Karlskrona)

·         Geometric Aspects of Partial Differential Equations, Minisymposium 1998

o    (PDF) Recollections from the Early Days of Index Theory, November 1999

·         PDE Network Seminars, Held at RUC

o    Interplay Between Global Analysis, Spectral Geometry and Mathematical Physics, 17 March 2000

o    Bohmian mechanics , 18 May 2000

o    (PDF) Symplectic Analysis, 25 August 2000


Mathematical Modelling – Assessment (not updated):

·         Schriftenverzeichnis (not yet available)

·         Exocytosis Workshop June 29 - July 2, 2006

·         Teaching Modelling:

o    Suggestions and Links

·         Better Environment by Mathematical Modelling? (in Danish) MILJOESK 19/2000

·         16. RUC-Modeldag (in Danish): Matematiske modeller i kemi, 29. april 2004

·         15. RUC-Modeldag (in Danish): Rumlige modellers anvendelse i geografi og fysisk planlægning, 20. marts 2003

·         14. RUC-Modeldag (in Danish): Anvendt "Anvendt Matematik", 16. maj 2002

·         13. RUC-Modeldag (in Danish): Om organismers og populationers biologi, 1. marts 2001

·         Evolutionary Algorithms Seminar on Evolutionary algorithms and the Knowledge Economy (with Roman Galar and RUC informatics people)

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Military and Democracy Studies

·        Politisk disciplinering, Udstilling på RUb om 1970ernes vesttyske Berufsverbot og temadag d. 8. april 2016, klik her

·         Whistleblowing - Safty Valve of Democracy Ellsberg and Grevil at Roskilde University, October 26, 2004.

·         Draft Essay on Mathematics and War for Hutchinson Companion Encyclopedia of Mathematics

·         International Meeting on Mathematics and War, Karlskrona (Sweden), August 29-31, 2002

o    Report for the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) by Tine Wedege (Roskilde, Denmark) in English, for Dansk Matematisk Forening in Danish.

o    (with J. Høyrup) Draft Feature for Mathematical Intelligencer in PDF.

o    (with J. Høyrup, eds.) Book "Mathematics and War" (Enlarged Conference Proceedings): Contents, Publisher (search for mathematics and war), and Reviews.

o    Journeys in Neutrality. Travel and Conference Notes by Andrew Hodges (Oxford), click here.

·         Schriftenverzeichnis Militaria

·         "Near-East needs peace", DANISH ACADEMICS AGAINST WAR IN IRAQ, October 2002: Documentation

·         The Kosovo War:

o    NATO's War on Yugoslavia, Proceedings of a Conference Held at RUC, November 1999 (in course of preparation)

o    (PDF) (with Bent C. Joergensen and Rasmus Ole Rasmussen), Facts and Fiction of the Kosowo War: New Qualities of Warfare? (rel. 1.5, date 30 December 2000)

o    The NATO War on Yugoslavia: Reflections and Outlook, October 2000

o    DANISH ACADEMICS AGAINST NATO'S WAR IN THE BALKANS 1999: Documentation

·         War on Iraq, Hearing at RUC, April 1991 (in Danish)

o    (PDF) (with Sussi Booss-Bavnbek), Fragments to understanding the Gulf War Desert Storm (in Danish, completed February 17, 1991)

·         (PDF) The Booss-Høyrup Study of 1984, published in English in 1994

 

Varia

·         Draft Essay on Tizian\Tizian-in-Augsburg_Beginn.pdf  (status 2. september 2020)


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Rel. 2.3; Date August 2010. Please send suggestions, criticism and contributions to Booss@ruc.dk