Mathematics and the 21st century : proceedings of the international conference, Cairo, Egypt, 15-20 January 2000 / editors A.A. Ashour, A.-S.F. Obada.

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Millennium lecture -- Cairo, 15 January 2000 / Sir Michael Atiyah -- Trends for science and mathematics in the 21st century / Phillip A. Griffiths -- Arabic mathematics and rewriting the history of mathematics / Roshdi Rashed -- The paradigm shift in mathematics education: a scenario for change / William Ebeid -- Einstein's Theory of Spacetime and Gravity / Jurgen Ehlers -- Moduli problems in geometry / M.S. Narasimhan -- Enumerative geometry from the Greeks to strings / C. Procesi -- Optical solitons: twenty-seven years of the last millennium and three more years of the new? / R.K. Bullough -- Concepts for non-smooth dynamical systems / Tassilo Kiipper -- Radical Theory: Developments and Trends / Richard Wiegandt -- On minimal subgroups of finite groups / M. Asaad -- Totally and mutually permutable products of finite groups / A. Ballester-Bolinches -- Asymptotic behaviour of solutions of evolution equations / Bolis Basit -- On nonlinear evolution equations with applications / Lokenath Debnath -- A robust layer-resolving numerical method for a free convection problem / Jocelyn Etienne, John J.H. Miller and Grigorii I. Shishkin -- Growth value-distribution and zero-free regions of entire functions and sections / Faruk F. Abi-Khuzam -- Three linear preserver problems / Ahmed Ramzi Sourour -- Prediction: advances and new research / Essam K. Al-Hussaini -- Inference on parameters of the Laplace distribution based on type-II censored samples using Edgeworth approximation / N. Balakrishnan, A. Childs, Z. Govindarajulu and M.P. Chandramouleeswaran -- Mathematical models in the theory of accelerated experiments / V. Bagdonavicius and M. Nikulin -- The vibrations of a drum with fractal boundary / Jacqueline Fleckinger-Pelle -- Intermediate states: some nonclassical properties / M. Sebawe Abdalla and A.-S.F. Obada -- On the relativistic two-body equation / S.R. Komy -- Singularities in general relativity and the origin of charge / K. Buchner -- The inner geometry of light cone in Godel universe / M. Abdel-Megied.

The Conference on "Mathematics and the 21st Century" was held in Cairo, Egypt during the period 15-20 January 2000. The conference's sessions consisted of plenary lectures and topical sessions. Some of the plenary lectures covered general fields such as: rewriting the history of mathematics; education of mathematics; relation between mathematics and sciences; and mathematical aspects of transportation.

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