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Jean-Pierre Changeux, and Alain Connes, Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics, translated by M. B. DeBevoise, Princeton University Press, 1998, |
Alain Connes, Noncommutative Geometry, Academic Press, 1994, |
See also |
Bost–Connes system |
Cyclic category |
Cyclic homology |
Factor (functional analysis) |
Higgs boson |
C*-algebra |
Noncommutative quantum field theory |
M-theory |
Groupoid |
Spectral triple |
Criticism of non-standard analysis |
Riemann hypothesis |
References |
External links |
Alain Connes Official Web Site containing downloadable papers, and his book Non-commutative geometry, . |
Alain Connes' Standard Model |
An interview with Alain Connes and a discussion about it |
1947 births |
Living people |
20th-century French mathematicians |
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences |
21st-century French mathematicians |
Collège de France faculty |
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars |
Fields Medalists |
Mathematical analysts |
Differential geometers |
École Normale Supérieure alumni |
Vanderbilt University faculty |
Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Members of the French Academy of Sciences |
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters |
Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters |
Clay Research Award recipients Allan Dwan (born Joseph Aloysius Dwan; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter. |
Early life |
Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan, was the younger son of commercial traveler of woolen clothing Joseph Michael Dwan (1857–1917) and his wife Mary Jane Dwan, née Hunt. The family moved to the United States when he was seven years old on December 4, 1892 by ferry from Windsor to Detroit, accord... |
Allan Dwan studied engineering at the University of Notre Dame and then worked for a lighting company in Chicago. He had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry, and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job. At that time, some of the East Coast movie ... |
Career |
Dwan operated Flying A Studios in La Mesa, California from August 1911 to July 1912. Flying A was one of the first motion pictures studios in California history. On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Avenue and La Mesa Boulevard commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in L... |
After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian-American Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood. Dwan directed Gloria Swanson in eight feature films, and one short film made in the short-lived soun... |
Following the introduction of the talkies, Dwan directed child-star Shirley Temple in Heidi (1937) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938). |
Dwan helped launch the career of two other successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer. Over a long career spanning almost 50 years, Dwan directed 125 motion pictures, some of which... |
He died in Los Angeles at the age of 96, and is interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California. |
Dwan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6263 Hollywood Boulevard. |
Daniel Eagan of Film Journal International described Dwan as one of the early pioneers of cinema, stating that his style "is so basic as to seem invisible, but he treats his characters with uncommon sympathy and compassion." |
Partial filmography as director |
The Gold Lust (1911) |
The Picket Guard (1913) |
The Restless Spirit (1913) |
Back to Life (1913) |
Bloodhounds of the North (1913) |
The Lie (1914) |
The Honor of the Mounted (1914) |
The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch (1914) |
Remember Mary Magdalen (1914) |
Discord and Harmony (1914) |
The Embezzler (1914) |
The Lamb, the Woman, the Wolf (1914) |
The End of the Feud (1914) |
The Test (1914) (*writer) |
The Tragedy of Whispering Creek (1914) |
The Unlawful Trade (1914) |
The Forbidden Room (1914) |
The Hopes of Blind Alley (1914) |
Richelieu (1914) |
Wildflower (1914) |
A Small Town Girl (1915) |
David Harum (1915) |
A Girl of Yesterday (1915) |
The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915) |
Jordan Is a Hard Road (1915) |
Betty of Graystone (1916) |
The Habit of Happiness (1916) |
The Good Bad Man (1916) |
An Innocent Magdalene (1916) |
The Half-Breed (1916) |
Manhattan Madness (1916) |
Accusing Evidence (1916) |
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