The Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews

Interview Subject URL(s) Transcript(s) Date Place Commentary Topics
Accardi, Luigi 1          
Adelson-Velsky, Georg 1 English transcription Russian transcription   Moscow    
Aldous, David 1 2   Sat, 07/21/2012 Ithaca, NY    
Barlow, Martin 1 2   Sun, 11/04/1984 Oberwolfach, Germany    
Berest, Yuri            
Berest, Yuri 1   Sun, 10/31/1999      
Brydges, David 1   Wed, 10/06/1982      
Burbank, Istvan 1   Sun, 07/14/2013      
Chung, Kai Lai 1          
Chung, Kai Lai 1 2          
Chung, Kai Lai 1   Mon, 07/25/1994      
Coxeter, Harold 1     Toronto    
Cramér, Harald 1     Moscow, Russia    
Daletskii, Yuri 1 2   Sun, 11/24/1991 Ithaca, NY    
Dawson, Donald 1   Wed, 04/29/1987 Ithaca, NY    
Dieudonné, Jean 1     Moscow, Russia    
Dobrushin, Roland Vvedenskaya, Nikita Karpelevich, Fridrikh Minlos, Robert Uspenskiy, Vladimir Khasminskii, Rafail Yushkevich, Alexander 1 2 3 4 5 English highlights Sat, 09/16/1989 Moscow, Russia Vladamir Uspensky’s comments on the party recordings  
Dobrushin, Roland 1 English & Russian transcription of the Sept. 16, 1989 fragment Sat, 09/16/1989 Moscow, Russia Fragment of the recording of the party at Nikita Vvedenskaya. Dobrushin on a meeting at Moscow KG.  
Dobrushin, Roland 1 English transcription of June 2, 1989 Interview Russian transcription of June 2, 1989 Interview Fri, 06/02/1989 Ithaca, NY    
Donsker, Monroe 1 2     Les Houches, France    
Doob, Joseph 1   Thu, 03/02/1978 Urbana, Illinois    
Doob, Joseph 1   Sat, 05/21/1994 Ithaca, New York    
Durrett, Richard 1   Mon, 03/27/1978 Ithaca, NY    
Dvoretzky, Aryeh 1     Moscow, Russia    
Dynkin, Eugene Kuznetsov, Sergei 1 2 3 English transcription Russian transcription Sun, 07/25/1999 Ithaca, NY These interviews took place July 25, 1999 and July 28, 1999. They are mainly Eugene Dynkin talking at his home in Ithaca, New York. Among other subjects, Dynkin tells of his childhood in Leningrad and Kazakhstan, his teachers, students and colleagues, and generally about the academic life in the Soviet Union and in the West. Some of these reminiscences have appeared as remarks in interviews with other people in the collection. Dynkin’s wife Irene also contributes as do Sergei Kuznetsov and his wife Olga.  
             
Dynkin, Eugene 1 2     Ithaca, N.Y., Dynkin’s home    
Dynkin, Eugene 1 2     Ithaca, NY   Student years. Work at seminars of Gelfand and Kolmogorov.
Dynkin, Eugene 1     Ithaca NY    
Dynkin, Eugene     Fri, 05/07/2010 Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University    
Dynkin, Eugene 1     Ithaca, New York Presented at the Karpelevich memorial meeting of the Moscow mathematical society in December 2007, Fridrikh Karpelevich: His early years in mathematics
Dynkin, Eugene Skorokhod, Anatoliy Khasminskii, Rafail Wentzell, Alexander 1 English Highlights   Ithaca, N.Y. Dynkin speaking on Anatoliy Skorokhod, 0:00-3:29; Rafail Khasminskii, 3:30-9:58; and Alexander Wentzell, 9:59-16:55. These are reminiscences at the banquet of Dynkin’s 80th birthday Workshop, May 2004.  
Earle, Evan 1   Thu, 09/13/2012 Ithaca, N.Y. at Dynkin’s home    
Eckmann, Beno 1     Zurich, Switzerland    
Ershov, Mikhail 1     Moscow   Leopold Schmetterer
Esenin-Volpin, Alexander 1   Tue, 06/29/1982 Ithaca, NY    
Evstigneev, Igor 1 Russian highlights English highlights Sat, 08/05/1989 Ithaca, NY    
Falkner, Neil Watkins, Joe 1   Sat, 03/31/1984 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada    
Foata, Dominique 1   Tue, 01/17/1978 Solana Beach, California    
Föllmer, Hans 1     rowboat on Zürich Lake    
Föllmer, Hans 1   Sun, 03/28/2004      
Föllmer, Hans 1   Mon, 09/17/2012 Ithaca, N.Y.    
Freidlin, Mark 1 2 3 English highlights Fri, 05/22/1987   to get an exit visa  
Freidlin, Mark 1 2 English highlights Sun, 07/19/1987      
Freiman, Gregory 1 2     Ithaca, NY    
Freiman, Gregory 1   Fri, 11/18/1983 Tel Aviv, Israel    
Freiman, Gregory 1 2   Thu, 04/04/1985 Ithaca, NY    
Friedman, Avner 1     Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois    
Gabrielov, Andrei 1   Mon, 05/03/1999      
Ganago, Alexander 1   Sun, 10/27/1991 Ithaca, N.Y. This file as been edited to remove content at the request of the participants. The original file remains offline in the archive. Reminiscences on Kolmogorov boarding school in the 1960s
Garsia, Adriano 1   Tue, 01/17/1978 La Jolla, California    
Getoor, Ronald 1   Fri, 04/25/1980 Ithaca, NY    
Gindikin, Simon 1 2   Sun, 12/02/1990      
Gindikin, Simon 1 English highlights Wed, 03/31/2010      
Glover, Joseph 1     Ithaca, New York (Dynkin’s home)    
Gordin, Mikhail 1     St. Petersburg, Russia    
Gordina, Maria Teplyaev, Alexander 1   Tue, 11/29/1994      
Gross, Leonard 1   Thu, 01/17/2002      
Halkin, Hubert 1     University of California, San Diego Dynkin dates this as being recorded circa 1984, though Halkin guesses earlier. Note from Halkin: “My good friend Lucien Neustadt,  who I mention as “passed away” on the tape, died in October 1972. My best guess is that the interview took place between 1973 and 1981 when I began as chair of the department.”  
Harris, Theodore 1 2   Wed, 07/22/1987      
Hulanicki, Andrzej 1 2     Wroclaw, Poland    
Hulanicki, Andrzej 1          
Ilyashenko, Yulij 1   Fri, 07/04/1997      
Iscoe, Ian 1   Wed, 02/25/1987      
Itō, Kiyoshi 1          
James, Barry Neyman, Jerzy 1   Fri, 11/27/1981 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Interview in which James discusses Jerzy Neyman’s time in Rio. Jerzy Neyman
Kabatiansky, Grigory 1   Tue, 11/16/1999      
Kac, Mark 1     Ithaca, NY    
Kac, Victor 1 2 3 English highlights     Portions of the original file have been redacted from the digital file that is displayed here.  
Kagan, Abram 1 2 English highlights Sun, 05/22/1988      
Kaimanovich, Vadim 1   Sun, 06/07/1992 Ithaca, NY-    
Karpelevich, Fridrikh 1 2 English transcription, part I English transcription, part II Russian transcription, part I Russian transcription, part II Mon, 09/11/1989      
Katok, Anatole 1 English highlights   Ithaca, NY Highlights of Interviews “New Year 1981” and “October 1999”  
Katok, Anatole 1     Ithaca, NY    
Katok, Anatole 1   Mon, 12/27/1982 Ithaca, NY    
Katok, Anatole 1 2     Ithaca, NY    
Katok, Anatole 1     Katok’s home, Maryland    
Katok, Anatole Katok, Svetlana 1 2 English transcription Fri, 10/29/1999 Ithaca, NY    
Katok, Svetlana 1     Ithaca, NY    
Katsenelinboigen, Aron 1   Sun, 07/05/1981      
Katsenelinboigen, Aron 1   Thu, 03/15/1990      
Katsenelinboigen, Aron 1   Sun, 07/17/1994      
Katsenelinboigen, Aron 1   Sun, 07/17/1994      
Kendall, David Krickeberg, Klaus 1     Warsaw, Poland    
Kendall, David Krickeberg, Klaus 1     Warsaw, Poland    
Kendall, David 1     Warsaw, Poland Discussing Harold Cramér, Pearson, and Meyer amongst others. 1975, Warsaw, Poland. Harold Cramér
Kendall, David 1     Moscow, Russia    
Kendall, David 1     Warsaw, Poland    
Kendall, David 1     Warsaw, Poland    
Kendall, Wilfrid 1     Kingston on Hull    
Kesten, Harry 1   Mon, 05/29/1995 Institut Mittag-Leffler in Djursholm, Sweden    
Khasminskii, Rafail 1 English Highlights   Ithaca, New York    
Kifer, Yuri 1   Tue, 05/15/1979      
Kirillov, Alexandre 1 2 English highlights Fri, 10/19/1990   Portions of the original file have been redacted from the digital file that is displayed here.  
Kirillov, Alexandre 1 2 English highlights Wed, 09/13/1989      
Kitaigorodskii, Sergei 1   Wed, 08/04/1982 Ithaca, N.Y. Discusses Lev Davidovich Landau. Lev D. Landau
Kolmogorov, Andrey 1     Moscow University    
Kolmogorov, Andrey 1     Moscow Converstion with E. B. Dynkin after his visit to China. On cultural contacts with foreign mathematicians.
Kovalev, Sergei Adamovich 1 2 3   Fri, 03/24/1989 Ithaca, NY    
Krylov, Nicolai 1 2 English highlights Russian highlights Russian transcription Sun, 11/03/1991 Ithaca, NY    
Kunita, Hiroshi 1     Khabarovsk, Russia    
Kuznetsov, Sergei 1 Russian transcription   Ithaca, NY    
Kuznetsov, Sergei 1 English highlights Russian highlights Russian transcription Tue, 11/08/1994 Ithaca, NY This file has had a portion removed from the middle because of a phone call Kuznetsov received.  
Kuznetsov, Sergei 1 Russian transcription Fri, 07/07/1989 Ithaca, NY Portions of the original file have been redacted from the digital file that is displayed here.  
Landis, Evgenii 1 2 English transcription Russian transcription Sun, 09/02/1990 Hotel of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia More recollections of E. M. Landis can be found in the article: E. M. Landis, About mathematics at Moscow State University in the late 1940s and early 1950s; Golden years of Moscow mathematics, Zdradkovska, Smilka and Duren, Peter (eds); Amer. Math. Soc. and London Math. Soc. 1993, pages 55-73. ISBN 0821890034.  
Le Gall, Jean-Francois 1   Tue, 11/24/1987      
Le Gall, Jean-Francois 1     Ithaca, New York Recorded July 2005.  
             
Levin, Leonid 1 Commentary by Leonid Levin on this interview.     Portions of the original file have been redacted from the digital file that is displayed here.  
             
Levitan, Boris 1   Sun, 01/15/1995 Minneapolis, Minnesota    
Lewis, John 1   Sun, 06/01/1980 Les Houches, France    
Lewy, Hans 1 2   Wed, 10/07/1981      
Maisonneuve, Bernard 1     Oberwolfach    
Malyutov, Mikhail 1   Mon, 09/03/1990 Moscow, Inn Akademicheskaya    
Malyutov, Mikhail 1 English highlights Fri, 09/13/1996   This file has had a portion removed from the middle due to an interruption.  
Mandelbaum, Avishai 1 2   Fri, 09/28/2012 Ithaca, N.Y.    
Mandelbrot, Benoit 1     Ithaca, NY    
Moshe, Marcus 1          
Margulis, Grigory 1 English transcription Tue, 09/12/1989 Moscow, Russia    
Maruyama, Gisiro 1     Tokyo, Japan    
McNicoll, Anthony 1 2   Sun, 08/12/2012 Ithaca, N.Y.    
Menshikov, Mikhail 1   Wed, 07/31/1991 Ithaca, NY    
Meyer, Paul-Andre 1 2   Sat, 01/09/1982 Bangalore India, West End Hotel    
Minchenko, Andrei 1          
Molchanov, Stanislav 1 English Highlights Fri, 05/18/1990 Ithaca, NY    
Motoo, Minoru 1   Wed, 08/31/1977 Tokyo, Japan    
Movshovich, Solomon 1   Sun, 09/10/1989      
Movshovich, Solomon 1          
Nagasawa, Masao 1 2     Zurich, Switzerland    
Natanzon, Sergey M. 1   Sat, 05/10/2014 Ithaca, N.Y.    
Neyman, Jerzy Various Unidentified Individuals 1          
Norris, James 1 2     Oberwolfach, Germany    
Onishchik, Arkady Vinberg, Ernest 1 2 3 English transcription Russian transcription Russian highlights Sat, 09/09/1989      
Orey, Steven 1 2 3     University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota    
Orlov, Yuri 1 2   Fri, 04/13/1990 Ithaca, NY    
Ovchinnikov, Alexey Minchenko, Andrei 1          
Parthasarathy, Kalyanapuram 1   Fri, 01/15/1982 Delhi, India K. R. Parthasarathy recollections recorded January 15, 1982 at his home in Delhi, India  
Perkins, Edwin A. 1          
Piatetski-Shapiro, Ilya     Tue, 11/07/1978 Ithaca, NY, house of Eugene Dynkin   Family history antisemitism university years teachers Gelfand classmates reasearch history of emigration refusnik
Piatetski-Shapiro, Ilya 1 2 English transcription Russian transcription Fri, 11/17/1978 Ithaca, NY    
Prabhu, Narahari Çinlar, Erhan 1   Sun, 02/28/1982 Ithaca, NY    
Raskina, Alexandra 1 2 3     Ithaca, New York http://dynkincollection.library.cornell.edu/biographies/937  
Rényi, Alfréd 1     Moscow, Russia Interview conducted in 1967 in Moscow, Russia.  
Rogers, Leonard 1   Sun, 03/16/1986      
Rogers, Leonard Williams, David 1     David Williams’ house in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom http://dynkincollection.library.cornell.edu/biographies/938  
Rosen, Jay 1          
Rosenblatt, Murray 1   Mon, 01/16/1978 Ithaca, NY Rosenblatt’s wife, Ady, is also heard in the interview.  
Rosenfeld, Boris 1   Wed, 03/01/2000   Rosenfeld’s wife, Lucy Davidov, also participates.  
Rozovsky, Boris Krylov, Nicolai 1 English transcription Russian transcription English highlights (Krylov portion) Russian highlights (Krylov portion) Sun, 04/22/2007 Ithaca, NY    
Shapiro, Alexander 1   Fri, 07/08/1983 Ithaca, NY    
Shepp, Lawrence 1   Mon, 10/17/1988 Ithaca, NY Shepp’s wife, Britt-Louise Shepp, is also heard in the interview.  
Shiryaev, Albert 1   Mon, 10/08/1984 Ithaca, NY    
Shiryaev, Albert 1 Shiryaev 2004 Highlights Russian Shiryaev 2004 Russian Transcript Shiryaev 2004 EnglishTranscript   Ithaca, NY    
Shiryaev, Albert 1   Sun, 01/01/1978 Helsinki, Finland    
Shnol, Emmanuil 1   Sun, 12/08/1996      
Shubin, Mikhail 1 2 3   Mon, 09/03/1990      
Shubin, Mikhail 1   Sun, 10/27/1991 Ithaca, N.Y.   Anti-Gorbachev coup attempt in August 1991
Sidorenko, Alexander 1   Thu, 09/28/1989      
Skorokhod, Anatoliy 1 2   Thu, 02/20/1992 Ithaca, NY    
Skorokhod, Anatoliy 1     Ithaca, New York    
Snell, James 1 2   Thu, 05/08/1980 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire    
Snell, James 1 2   Tue, 05/08/1990      
Sonin, Isaac M. 1   Mon, 05/20/2013 College Park, Maryland    
Spiridonov, Alexey 1   Wed, 10/19/2011 Ithaca, NY    
Spivakovsky, Mark 1   Thu, 07/15/1982 Durham, New Hampshire Interview conducted with Mark Spivakovsky in Durham, New Hampshire at the AMS Summer Research Conference “Quantum fields, Probability and Geometry,” July 11-17, 1982.  
Stroock, Daniel 1          
Taksar, Michael 1 2 English Translation Russian Transcription Wed, 08/22/1979      
Taylor, Samuel 1     Liverpool, England Interview conducted with Samuel James or S.J. Taylor, June 1979 in Manchester, England. He discusses Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch. Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
Tikhomirov, Vladimir 1 2 3 English transcription Wed, 06/02/1993 St. Petersburg, Russia    
Tintner, Gerhard 1          
Toom, Andrei 1   Fri, 02/23/1990 Ithaca, NY    
Trakhtenbrot, Boris 1 English transcription Sun, 10/18/1981 Ithaca, NY    
Various Unidentified Individuals 1   Thu, 03/23/1978 Montreal, Canada Conversation between visitors from Russia discussing the security guards, “dukhi”, for leading Soviet physicists who were working on nuclear weapons. nuclear weapons security guards dukhi
Uspenskiy, Vladimir 1 English transcription Fri, 04/20/1990 Ithaca, NY Commentary from Uspensky Kolmogorov
Uspenskiy, Vladimir 1   Wed, 06/02/2004 Ithaca, NY, home of Eugene Dynkin Commentary from Uspensky  
Vanderbei, Robert 1          
Vanderbei, Robert 1     Ithaca, NY Recorded Spring 1978 at the home of Eugene Dynkin, Ithaca, New York  
Vaserstein, Leonid 1 2          
Vershik, Anatoly Rokhlin, Vladimir 1 2 3 4 English highlights Thu, 03/15/1990 Ithaca, NY    
Vershik, Anatoly 1 2   Fri, 06/04/1993 St. Petersburg, Russia    
Vinberg, Ernest 1 2 3 Russian highlights Sun, 03/08/1992 Ithaca, NY    
Vinberg, Ernest 1 2 Russian highlights Fri, 04/16/1999   In part 1 a portion of this tape was lost (recorded over) starting at the 13:10 mark. This portion is edited out of the file, playback resumes shortly after.  
Vinberg, Ernest Kirillov, Alexandre Tikhomirov, Vladimir Vvedenskaya, Nikita 1 2 English highlights Thu, 04/08/1993 Moscow, Russia Interview recorded in April 8, 1993 in the Uzkoye Guest House of the Russia Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. The interview is in two parts.  
Volkonsky, Victor 1 2   Sat, 09/16/1989      
Voronel, Alexander 1   Sat, 06/05/1982 Ithaca, NY    
Voronel, Alexander 1   Mon, 12/14/1981 Ithaca, NY    
Vvedenskaya, Nikita 1 2 English highlights D.A. Vvedensky Biography I D.A. Vvedensky Biography II Mon, 12/11/1989 Moscow, Russia, at the home of Nikita Vvedenskaya    
Walsh, John 1     Ithaca, NY    
Walsh, John 1     Oberwolfach, Germany    
Watanabe, Shinzo 1   Mon, 08/23/1999      
Weiss, Benjamin 1     Israel    
Wentzell, Alexander 1   Fri, 12/01/1989 Ithaca, NY    
Wentzell, Alexander 1     Ithaca, NY http://dynkincollection.library.cornell.edu/biographies/902  
Wentzell, Alexander 1   Thu, 11/30/1989 Ithaca, NY    
Wentzell, Alexander 1   Sat, 08/15/1998      
Wentzell, Alexander 1 English highlights Tue, 09/05/1989 Moscow, Russia    
Yaglom, Akiva 1 2   Mon, 06/25/2001      
Yaglom, Akiva 1 2 3 English transcription Russian transcription Wed, 12/02/1998 Ithaca, NY    
Yanovskaya, Sofya 1          
Yanovskaya, Sofya 1 2       Interview conducted circa 1965 in Moscow, Russia, the interview is in two parts. Yanovskaya describes her trip to Kirovohrad (Elisavetgrad) in 1918 on a secret assignment.  
Yoshida, Kosaku 1   Wed, 08/31/1977 Tokyo, Japan    
Yushkevich, Alexander 1   Tue, 03/14/1989      
Zolotarev, Vladimir 1 2   Sun, 09/02/1990      
Zolotarev, Vladimir 1   Mon, 09/03/1990