Highlights in Zentralblatt MATH

In this new column you have quick access to selected highlights of Zentralblatt MATH.
You will find summaries on remarkable developments in mathematics, outstanding reviews, historical surveys and much more, as compiled by the editors of Zentralblatt MATH for your advantage.

Date	Highlights
2008-06-12	L'isomorphisme entre les tours de Lubin-Tate et de Drinfeld In the context of the local Langlands correspondence, a geometric relation between the Lubin-Tate tower and the Drinfeld tower has long been expected. The recent book ``L'isomorphisme entre les tours de Lubin-Tate et de Drinfeld" of Laurent Fargues, Alain Genestier and Vincent Lafforgue makes this relation explicit. Read the elaborated review of Elmar Große-Klönne in Zbl 1136.14001 to get acquainted with the sophisticated mathematics involved. more ...
2008-05-30	PISA, Bach, Pythagoras: Mathematics, Music and Cabaret We learned from Tom Lehrer that mathematics and cabaret can be a good match. Jürgen Appell reviews in Zbl 1134.00008 the program of Dietrich Paul, a German cabaret artist whose favorite topics evolve around education, music and mathematics. more ...
2008-05-13	Electronic Geometry Models ZMATH includes now the items of the Electronic Geometry Models archive, like the Rhombicosidodecahedron (one of the thirteen Archimedean solids, with 60 vertices, 120 edges and 62 facets, 12 pentagons, 30 squares and 20 triangles), or Sharir's cube. more ...
2008-05-09	Factorization method in quantum mechanics Special problems from quantum mechanics that arise frequently in physics and chemistry can often be treated by the factorization method. more ...
2008-04-17	Does a global temperature exist? Global warming has become a hot topic in the mass media. »Warming« is usually measured by the change of temperature - but does a »global temperature« make sense? more ...
2008-03-31	The proof of the Poincaré and the Geometrization Conjecture Read the first reviews of Grisha Perelman's three famous e-prints, provided by Gérard Besson (Grenoble) in Zbl 1130.53001, Zbl 1130.53002 and Zbl 1130.53003.
2008-03-29	Who is Alexander Grothendieck? On the occasion of Grothendieck's 80th birthday, ZMATH has an extensive review by Werner Kleinert (Berlin) of the first part of Winfried Scharlau's new biography in Zbl 1129.01018.