``WZ Theory, Chapter II''
By D. Zeilberger
Written: Nov. 10, 1998.
Exclusively published in the
Personal Journal of Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger
(Originally solicited by Marie-Francoise Roy, for a volume that she
intended to co-edit, but never materialized.)
The MSRI workshop on Symbolic Computation in Geometry and
Analysis, Oct. 12-16, 1998 was great fun. All the talks
were excellent, especially Dave Bayer's and my own.
The present article is a slighlty edited version of
the transcript of the videotape. The video can be viewed,
along with the other talks, at
MSRI website(clique on Videos).
[added April 13, 2009: this must have been removed, since I couldn't
find it anymore, but it has been resurrected
movie
(thanks to Paul Raff).
(Plain ) .tex version (13 pages)
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Added 11/24/98: My impressions of the previous talks at the MSRI
workshop can be read in the
transcript of the first ten minutes, prepared by
the MSRI staff, and edited by Hugo Rossi, deputy director.
It appeared in the EMISSARY (MSRI newsletter), Dec. 1998.
Note added Dec. 22, 1999: My prediction about huamn math becoming
a competitive sport was quoted in Didier Nordon's column in the
[added Nov. 12, 2004: this page has since been removed]
Sept. 1999 issue of Pour La Science
, the French analog of Scientific American.
Nordon is afraid, however, that future human math athletes will
be stifled by sport beurocrats.
Added Nov. 12, 2004: The complete translation of this
article into French has not yet materialized (and probably
never will), but a two-page summary appeared in the
body (pp. 201-203) of
Marie-Francoise ROY's [currently President of SMF] fascinating article
"Le reel du calcul", that has recently appeared
(pp. 193-206) in the
fascinating and very original volume
"Le reel en Mathematiques", about the connection between
psychoanalysis and mathematics, edited by Pierre Cartier
and Nathalie Charraud and published by AGALMA editeur.
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