Table of contents

Les relations entre les mathématiques et la physique théorique. Festschrift for the 40th anniversary of the IHÉS

Remerciements

Bourguignon, Jean Pierre

p. 7
Préface

Michel, Louis

p. 9
On nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Bourgain, Jean

p. 11-21
La folle journée, de Grothendieck à Connes et Kontsevich. Évolution des notions d'espace et de symétrie

Cartier, Pierre

p. 23-42
A new proof of Morley's theorem

Connes, Alain

p. 43-46
Chern-Simons terms as an example of the relations between mathematics and physics

Deser, Stanley

p. 47-51
Des ponts

Dewitt-Morette, Cécile

p. 53-66
Will M theory unify mathematics and physics ?

Douglas, Michael R.

p. 67-72
A mathematician's view of the development of physics

Faddeev, Ludvig

p. 73-79
Transport in thermal equilibrium, gapless modes, and anomalies

Fröhlich, Jürg

p. 81-97
Reminiscences on science at IHÉS. A problem on homoclinic theory and a brief review

Gallavotti, Giovanni M.

p. 99-117
Reflections and twists

Jaffe, Arthur

p. 119-130
Physique et mathématique

Michel, Louis

p. 131-144
De l'autogéométrisation de la physique

Ne'eman, Yuval

p. 145-152
The intertwining of affine Kac-Moody and current algebras

O'Raifeartaigh, Lochlainn

p. 153-164
The wall of the cave

Polyakov, Alexander M.

p. 165-177
Henri Poincaré's “Science et méthode”

Ruelle, David

p. 179-181
Physics and mathematics : a happily evolving marriage ?

Veneziano, Gabriele

p. 183-189
Theoretical physics at the IHÉS. Some retrospective remarks

Wightman, Arthur S.

p. 191-194