Materials on History of dynamics

History of Dynamics

Materials by Anatole Katok, a personal view

• The 1965 Humsan school in ergodic theory
• Ergodic theory from Humsan to Vienna (1965-1997)
• The 1977 Warsaw conference and Wieslaw Szlenk.
• The first half century of entropy: the most glorious number in dynamics, Moscow Kolmogorov-100 conference, June 2003
• Recollections on the Warwick school of dynamics and contributions of Klaus Schmidt and Peter Walters, Warwick Schmidt/Walters-60 conference , July 2003
• Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (23 August 1919 to 3 December 1984): introductory note. Erg. Theory Dynam. Systems 9 (1989), no. 4, 605–608.
• The development of dynamics in the 20th century and contribution of Jurgen Moser (with B. Hasselblatt), Erg. Theory and Dynam. Systems, (Moser memorial issue) 22 (2002), 1343--1364; Review
• Fifty years of Entropy in Dynamics: 1958--2007 Journal of Modern Dynamics, 1 , no 4, (2007), 545--596; Review
• Moscow dynamics seminars of the Nineteen seventies and the early career of Yasha Pesin, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 22 (2008), 1-22.
• Reflections on the Program in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems at MSRI in 1983-84 and its aftermath
• Development of Dynamics in 1980's and Early Years of Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Journal
• Dmitry Viktorovich Anosov: His life and mathematics in Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems: A Tribute to Dmitry Victorovich Anosov, Contemporary mathematics, AMS, 692, 2017, 1--21.
• Women in Soviet Mathematics (with Svetlana Katok) Notices of the AMS, 40, N2 1993, 108--116.; Review

More recent materials

• D.V. Anosov and our road to partial hyperbolicity by Michael Brin and Yakov Pesin, in Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems: A Tribute to Dmitry Victorovich Anosov, Contemporary mathematics, AMS, 692, 2017, 23--28.
• Anatole Katok by Boris Hasselblatt, Ergod. Th. & Dynam. Sys., (2022), 42, 321--388.
• Svetlana Katok, Lecture given by Boris Hasselblatt on August 27, 2022. Video
• Michael Brin and Yakov Pesin, Lecture given by Boris Hasselblatt on November 3, 2022. Video

• Three lectures in the Special session on History of Hyperbolic Dynamics given in the Workshop on Partial Hyperbolicity at the Brin Mathematics Research Center of the University of Maryland on May 10, 2023.

  A historical survey of hyperboilicity in America, Lecture given by Sheldon Newhouse, video;

  50 years of partial hyperbolicity: a story from the Russian side of the iron curtain, Lecture given by Yakov Pesin, video;

  Hyperbolic dynamics at IMPA, Lecture given by Enrique Pujals, video.