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year '25
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S. "Logarithmic systolic growth for hyperbolic surfaces in every genus." Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 153 (2025), no. 1, 325-330. https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/16985, https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02041
year '24
Hebda, J.; Katz, M. "On comass and stable systolic inequalities." Differential Geometry and Its Applications (2024). https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13966
Katz, M. "Mutually unbiased bases via complex projective trigonometry." Open Mathematics 22 (2024), Paper No. 20240019. https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2024-0019, https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20873, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/article?mr=4757324
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S. "Nonpositively curved surfaces are Loewner." Journal of Geometric Analysis 34 (2024), article number 291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-024-01732-4, https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00757, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/article?mr=4771380
year '23
Alesker, Semyon; Katz, Mikhail; Prosanov, Roman. "New invariants of Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Riemannian surfaces with curvature bounded below." Geometriae Dedicata 217 (2023), article number: 12. https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-022-00739-x, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4514481
Goodwillie, T.; Hebda, J.; Katz, M. "Extending Gromov's optimal systolic inequality." Journal of Geometry 114 (2023), article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-023-00685-3, https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03803, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/article?mr=4624541
Bair, J.; Borovik, A.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Kutateladze, S.; Sanders, S.; Sherry, D.; Ugaglia, M.; van Atten, M. "Is pluralism in the history of mathematics possible?" The Mathematical Intelligencer 45 (2023), no. 1, 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-022-10248-0, https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12422, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4559464. See also Depictions.
Heinig, P.; Katz, M.; Kuhlemann, K.; Schaefermeyer, J.P.; Sherry, D. "Exploring Felix Klein's contested modernism." Antiquitates Mathematicae 17 (2023), 101-137. https://dx.doi.org/10.14708/am.v17i1.7245, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00122, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/article?mr=4706521
Hrbacek, K.; Katz, M. "Constructing nonstandard hulls and Loeb measures in internal set theories." Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 29 (2023), no. 1, 97-127. https://doi.org/10.1017/bsl.2022.43, https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00367, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4560535
Hrbacek, K.; Katz, M. "Effective infinitesimals in ℝ." Real Analysis Exchange 48 (2023), no. 2, 365-380. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09672, https://doi.org/10.14321/realanalexch.48.2.1671048854, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/article?mr=4668954
Hrbacek, K.; Katz, M. "Peano and Osgood theorems via effective infinitesimals." Journal of Logic and Analysis 15:6 (2023), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.4115/jla.2023.15.6, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01374, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/article?mr=4673816
Katz, M.; Sherry, D.; Ugaglia, M. "When does a hyperbola meet its asymptote? Bounded infinities, fictions, and contradictions in Leibniz." Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 49 (2023), no. 2, 241-258. https://doi.org/10.36446/rlf2023359, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06023
year '22
Bair, J.; Borovik, A.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Kutateladze, S.; Sanders, S.; Sherry, D.; Ugaglia, M. "Historical infinitesimalists and modern historiography of infinitesimals." Antiquitates Mathematicae 16 (2022), 189-257. http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14504, https://doi.org/10.14708/am.v16i1.7169
Katz, M.; Kuhlemann, K.; Sherry, D.; Ugaglia, M.; van Atten, M. "Two-track depictions of Leibniz's fictions." The Mathematical Intelligencer 44 (2022), no. 3, 261-266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-021-10140-3, https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00922, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4480193
year '21
Katz, M. "An inequality for length and volume in the complex projective plane." Geometriae Dedicata 213 (2021), 49-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-020-00567-x, https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00157, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4278314
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S. "Systolically extremal nonpositively curved surfaces are flat with finitely many singularities." Journal of Topology and Analysis 13 (2021), no. 2, 319-347. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793525320500144, https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00730, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4284612
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S. "A Pu-Bonnesen inequality." Journal of Geometry 112 (2021), Article number 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-021-00579-2, http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02865, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4246907
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S. "Sharp reverse isoperimetric inequalities in nonpositively curved cones." Journal of Geometric Analysis 31 (2021), 10510-10520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-021-00658-5, http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04661, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4303928
Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Ely, R.; Katz, M.; Kuhlemann, K. "Procedures of Leibnizian infinitesimal calculus: An account in three modern frameworks." British Journal for the History of Mathematics 36 (2021), no. 3, 170-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2020.1851120, https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12628, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4353153
Bottazzi, E; Katz, M. "Infinite lotteries, spinners, and the applicability of hyperreals." Philosophia Mathematica 29 (2021), no. 1, 88-109. https://doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkaa032, https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11509, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4267988
Bottazzi, E; Katz, M. "Internality, transfer, and infinitesimal modeling of infinite processes." Philosophia Mathematica 29 (2021), no. 2, 256-277. https://doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkaa033, https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11513, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/article?mr=4492449
Bottazzi, E; Katz, M. "Infinitesimals via Cauchy sequences: Refining the classical equivalence." Open Mathematics 19 (2021), 477-482. https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2021-0048, https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00229, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4267478
Hrbacek, K.; Katz, M. "Infinitesimal analysis without the Axiom of Choice." Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 172 (2021), no. 6, 102959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apal.2021.102959, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04980, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4224071, Introduction to infinitesimal analysis without the axiom of choice
Katz, M. "A two-track tour of Cauchy's Cours." Mathematics Today 57 (2021), no. 4, 154-158. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00207, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4401322
Katz, M.; Kuhlemann, K.; Sherry, D.; Ugaglia, M. "Three case studies in current Leibniz scholarship." Antiquitates Mathematicae 15 (2021), no. 1, 147-168. https://dx.doi.org/10.14708/am.v15i1.7087, https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02047
year '20
Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Fuentes Guillén, E.; Heinig, P.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M. "Continuity between Cauchy and Bolzano: Issues of antecedents and priority." British Journal for the History of Mathematics 35 (2020), no. 3, 207-224. See https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2020.1770015 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13259 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4154872
Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Heinig, P.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M. "Cauchy's work on integral geometry, centers of curvature, and other applications of infinitesimals." Real Analysis Exchange 45 (2020), no. 1, 127-150. See https://doi.org/10.14321/realanalexch.45.1.0127, https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00438, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4196072
Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Nowik, T. "Metric completions, the Heine-Borel property, and approachability." Open Mathematics 18 (2020), 162-166. See https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2020-0017 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07536 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4080273
Katz, M. "Mathematical conquerors, Unguru polarity, and the task of history." Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 10 (2020), no. 1, 475-515. See http://doi.org/10.5642/jhummath.202001.27 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00249 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4060619
Katz, M. "Torus cannot collapse to a segment." Journal of Geometry 111 (2020), Article 13. See https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-020-0525-8 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07523 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4069827
Katz, M. "Convexity, critical points, and connectivity radius." Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 148 (2020) no. 3, 1279-1281. See https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/14892 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02432 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4055954
Katz, M.; Nowik, T. "A systolic inequality with remainder in the real projective plane." Open Mathematics 18 (2020), 902-906. See https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2020-0050 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14664 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4141392
year '19
Katz, M. "A quantitative obstruction to collapsing surfaces." Open Mathematics 17 (2019), 1183-1185. See https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2019-0103 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06782 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4023115
Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Heinig, P.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M. "19th century real analysis, forward and backward." Antiquitates Mathematicae 13 (2019), 19-49. See http://doi.org/10.14708/am.v13i1.6440 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07451 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=4075256
Bottazzi, E.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Mormann, T.; Sherry, D. "On mathematical realism and the applicability of hyperreals." Mat. Stud. 51 (2019), no. 2, 200-224. See http://u.math.biu.ac.il/~katzmik/realismreprint19b.pdf and https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07040 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3988243
year '18
Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kerner, D.; Liokumovich. Y. "Determinantal variety and normal embedding." Journal of Topology and Analysis 10 (2018), no. 01, 27-34. See http://doi.org/10.1142/S1793525318500073 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01227 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3737507
18a. Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Ely, R.; Heinig, P.; Katz, M. "Leibniz's well-founded fictions and their interpretations." Mat. Stud. 49 (2018), no. 2, 186-224. See http://doi.org/10.15330/ms.49.2.186-224 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00226 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3882551
18b. Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Heinig, P.; Katz, M.; Schäfermeyer, J.; Sherry, D. "Klein vs Mehrtens: restoring the reputation of a great modern." Mat. Stud. 48 (2017), no. 2, 189-219. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02193 and http://doi.org/10.15330/ms.48.2.189-219 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3819950
18c. Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kudryk, T.; Sherry, D. "Analyzing Benardete's comment on decimal notation." Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal no. 33, january 2018. See at journal and https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00191
18d. Bair, J.; Katz, M.; Sherry, D. "Fermat's dilemma: Why did he keep mum on infinitesimals? and the European theological context." Foundations of Science 23 (2018), no. 3, 559-595. See
18e. Bascelli, T.; Błaszczyk, P.; Borovik, A.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kutateladze, S.; McGaffey, T.; Schaps, D.; Sherry, D. "Cauchy's infinitesimals, his sum theorem, and foundational paradigms." Foundations of Science 23 (2018), no. 2, 267-296. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-017-9534-y and https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07723 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3803893
18f. Bascelli, T.; Błaszczyk, P.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kutateladze, S.; Nowik, T.; Schaps, D.; Sherry, D. "Gregory's sixth operation." Foundations of Science 23 (2018), no. 1, 133-144. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-016-9512-9 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05944 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3772065
18g. Błaszczyk, P.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Nowik, T. "Monotone subsequence via ultrapower." Open Mathematics 16 (2018), 149-153. See https://doi.org/10.1515/math-2018-0015 and monotonereprint18.pdf and https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00312 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3772690
18h. Herzberg, F.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Lyubetsky, V. "Minimal axiomatic frameworks for definable hyperreals with transfer." Journal of Symbolic Logic 83 Issue 1, march 2018, pp. 385-391. See http://doi.org/10.1017/jsl.2017.48 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00202 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3796290
18i. Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Mormann, T. "What makes a theory of infinitesimals useful? A view by Klein and Fraenkel." Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 8 (2018), no. 1, 108-119. See http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol8/iss1/7 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01972 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3762866
18j. Katz, B.; Katz, M; Sanders, S. "A footnote to The crisis in contemporary mathematics." Historia Mathematica 45 (2018), no. 2, 176-181. See https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2018.03.002 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02645 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3802555
year '17
17a. Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Ely, R.; Henry, V.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kudryk, T.; Kutateladze, S.; McGaffey, T.; Mormann, T.; Schaps, D.; Sherry, D. "Cauchy, infinitesimals and ghosts of departed quantifiers." Mat. Stud. 47 (2017), no. 2, 115-144. See
17b. Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Ely, R.; Henry, V.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kutateladze, S.; McGaffey, T.; Reeder, P.; Schaps, D.; Sherry, D.; Shnider, S. "Interpreting the infinitesimal mathematics of Leibniz and Euler." Journal for General Philosophy of Science 48 (2017), no. 2, 195-238. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-016-9334-z and https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00455 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3663035 Here we analyze Euler's approach to infinitesimal analysis and his proof of the infinite product decomposition for the sine function. We also examine Giovanni Ferraro's flawed historical scholarship and propose a sounder alternative.
17c. Błaszczyk, P.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kudryk, T.; Mormann, T.; Sherry, D. "Is Leibnizian calculus embeddable in first order logic?" Foundations of Science 22 (2017), no. 4, 717-731. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-016-9495-6 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03501 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3720412
17d. Błaszczyk, P.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kutateladze, S.; Sherry, D. "Toward a history of mathematics focused on procedures." Foundations of Science 22 (2017), no. 4, 763-783. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-016-9498-3 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04531 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3720415 Here we propose an approach to the history of mathematics that focuses in the procedures of the historical masters rather than set-theoretic ontology of the entities they use. We also examine Jeremy Gray's flawed historical scholarship and propose a sounder alternative.
17e. Błaszczyk, P.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Sherry, D. "Controversies in the foundations of analysis: Comments on Schubring's Conflicts." Foundations of Science 22 (2017), no. 1, 125-140. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-015-9473-4 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00059 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3605125 See also Reception
17f. Fletcher, P.; Hrbacek, K.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Lobry, C.; Sanders, S. "Approaches to analysis with infinitesimals following Robinson, Nelson, and others." Real Analysis Exchange 42 (2017), no. 2, 193-252. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00425 and http://doi.org/10.14321/realanalexch.42.2.0193 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3721800
17g. Gutman, A.; Katz, M.; Kudryk, T.; Kutateladze, S. "The Mathematical Intelligencer Flunks the Olympics." Foundations of Science 22 (2017), no. 3, 539-555. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-016-9485-8 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00160 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3696393 Here we examine Yaroslav Sergeyev's grossbit pathos.
17h. Katz, M.; Polev, L. "From Pythagoreans and Weierstrassians to true infinitesimal calculus." Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 7 (2017), no. 1, 87-104. See http://doi.org/10.5642/jhummath.201701.07 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05187
17i. Kanovei, V.; Katz, M. "A positive function with vanishing Lebesgue integral in Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory." Real Analysis Exchange 42(2), 2017, 385-390. https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00493, http://doi.org/10.14321/realanalexch.42.2.0385, https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3721807
year '16
Bascelli, T.; Błaszczyk, P.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Schaps, D.; Sherry, D. "Leibniz versus Ishiguro: Closing a Quarter Century of Syncategoremania." HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2016), no. 1, 117-147. See http://doi.org/10.1086/685645 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07209
Błaszczyk, P.; Borovik, A.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Kudryk, T.; Kutateladze, S.; Sherry, D. "A non-standard analysis of a cultural icon: The case of Paul Halmos." Logica Universalis 10 (2016), no. 4, 393-405. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-016-0153-0 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00149 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3566230
Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Nowik, T. "Small oscillations of the pendulum, Euler's method, and adequality." Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations 3 (2016), no. 3, 231-236. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s40509-016-0074-x and http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06663 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3531864
Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Schein, M.; Vishne, U. "Bolza quaternion order and asymptotics of systoles along congruence subgroups." Experimental Mathematics 25 (2016), no. 4, 399-415. See http://doi.org/10.1080/10586458.2015.1073642 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3499706
year '15
Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Sherry, D. "Euler's lute and Edwards' oud." The Mathematical Intelligencer 37 (2015), 48-51. See http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02586 and http://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-015-9565-6
Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Schaps, M. "Proofs and Retributions, Or: Why Sarah Can't Take Limits." Foundations of Science 20 (2015), no. 1, 1-25. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-013-9340-0 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3312498
Katz, M.; Kutateladze, S. "Edward Nelson (1932-2014)." The Review of Symbolic Logic 8 (2015), no. 3, 607-610. See http://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020315000015 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01570
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S. "Dyck's surfaces, systoles, and capacities." Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 367 (2015), no. 6, 4483-4504. See http://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06216-8 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0188 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3324936
Nowik, T; Katz, M. "Differential geometry via infinitesimal displacements." Journal of Logic and Analysis 7:5 (2015), 1-44. See http://doi.org/10.4115/jla.2015.7.5 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0984
year '14
Bascelli, T.; Bottazzi, E.; Herzberg, F.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Nowik, T.; Sherry, D.; Shnider, S. "Fermat, Leibniz, Euler, and the gang: The true history of the concepts of limit and shadow." Notices of the American Mathematical Society 61 (2014), no. 8, 848-864. See http://www.ams.org/notices/201408/rnoti-p848.pdf and http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0233
Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kudryk, T. "Toward a clarity of the extreme value theorem." Logica Universalis 8 (2014), no. 2, 193-214. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-014-0102-8 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5658 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3210286
Sherry, D.; Katz, M. "Infinitesimals, imaginaries, ideals, and fictions." Studia Leibnitiana 44 (2012), no. 2, 166-192. See http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2137
Tall, D.; Katz, M. "A cognitive analysis of Cauchy's conceptions of function, continuity, limit, and infinitesimal, with implications for teaching the calculus." Educational Studies in Mathematics 86 (2014), no. 1, 97-124. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-014-9531-9 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1468
year '13
Bair, J.; Błaszczyk, P.; Ely, R.; Henry, V.; Kanovei, V.; Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Kutateladze, S.; McGaffey, T.; Schaps, D.; Sherry, D.; Shnider, S. "Is mathematical history written by the victors?" Notices of the American Mathematical Society 60 (2013) no. 7, 886-904. Accessible here, http://www.ams.org/notices/201307/rnoti-p886.pdf, http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3086638, and http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5973
Błaszczyk, P.; Katz, M.; Sherry, D. "Ten misconceptions from the history of analysis and their debunking." Foundations of Science 18 (2013), no. 1, 43-74. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-012-9285-8, http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3031794, and http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4153
Kanovei, V.; Katz, M.; Mormann, T. "Tools, Objects, and Chimeras: Connes on the Role of Hyperreals in Mathematics." Foundations of Science 18 (2013), no. 2, 259--296. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-012-9316-5, http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3064607, and http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0244
Katz, M.; Leichtnam, E. "Commuting and noncommuting infinitesimals." American Mathematical Monthly 120 (2013), no. 7, 631-641. See http://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.07.631, http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3096469, and http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0583
Katz, M.; Schaps, D.; Shnider, D. "Almost Equal: The Method of Adequality from Diophantus to Fermat and Beyond." Perspectives on Science 21 (2013), no. 3, 283-324. See http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/POSC_a_00101, http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3114421, and http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7750
Katz, M.; Sherry, D. "Leibniz's Infinitesimals: Their Fictionality, Their Modern Implementations, And Their Foes From Berkeley To Russell And Beyond." Erkenntnis 78 (2013), no. 3, 571-625. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-012-9370-y, http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3053644, and http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0174
Katz, M.; Tall, D. "A Cauchy-Dirac delta function." Foundations of Science, 18 (2013), no. 1, 107-123. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-012-9289-4, http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3031797, and http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0119
Mormann, T.; Katz, M. "Infinitesimals as an issue of neo-Kantian philosophy of science." HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (2013), no. 2, 236-280. See http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/671348 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1027
year '12
Mikhail G. Katz and David Sherry. "Leibniz's laws of continuity and homogeneity." Notices of the American Mathematical Society 59 (2012), no. 11, 1550-1558. See https://doi.org/10.1090/noti921, http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.7188 See also http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~katzmik/straw2.html
Borovik, A.; Jin, R.; Katz, M. "An Integer Construction of Infinitesimals: Toward a Theory of Eudoxus Hyperreals." Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 53 (2012), no. 4, 557-570. See http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7475 and http://doi.org/10.1215/00294527-1722755
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S. "Hyperellipticity and systoles of Klein surfaces." Geometriae Dedicata 159 (2012), no. 1, 277-293. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-011-9659-z and http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.0361 and http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2944532
Katz, K.; Katz, M. "Stevin numbers and reality." Foundations of Science 17 (2012), no. 2, 109-123. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-011-9228-9 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3688
Karin Usadi Katz and Mikhail G. Katz. "A Burgessian Critique of Nominalistic Tendencies in Contemporary Mathematics and its Historiography." Foundations of Science 17 (2012), no. 1, 51-89. See http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-011-9223-1 See http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0375
Borovik, A.; Katz, M. "Who gave you the Cauchy--Weierstrass tale? The dual history of rigorous calculus." Foundations of Science 17 (2012), no. 3, 245-276. see http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-011-9235-x and http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2885
Mikhail G. Katz, David Tall. "Tension between Intuitive Infinitesimals and Formal Mathematical Analysis." Chapter in: Bharath Sriraman, Editor. Crossroads in the History of Mathematics and Mathematics Education. The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast Monographs in Mathematics Education 12, Information Age Publishing, Inc., Charlotte, NC, 2012, pp. 71-89. See http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5747
year '11
Karin Usadi Katz, Mikhail G. Katz: Meaning in Classical Mathematics: Is it at Odds with Intuitionism? Intellectica 56 (2011), no. 2, 223-302. See http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5456 and https://www.persee.fr/doc/intel_0769-4113_2011_num_56_2_1154
Katz, K.; Katz, M.: Cauchy's continuum. Perspectives on Science 19 (2011), no. 4, 426-452. See http://doi.org/10.1162/POSC_a_00047 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4201
Katz, M.; Schaps, M.; Vishne, U.: Hurwitz quaternion order and arithmetic Riemann surfaces. Geometriae Dedicata 155 (2011), no. 1, 151-161, see http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701137 and http://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-011-9582-3
Katz, K.; Katz, M.; Sabourau, S.; Shnider, S.; Weinberger, Sh.: Relative systoles of relative-essential 2-complexes. Algebraic & Geometric Topology 11 (2011), 197-217. See
Dranishnikov, A.; Katz, M.; Rudyak, Y.: Cohomological dimension, self-linking, and systolic geometry. Israel Journal of Math. 184 (2011), no. 1, 437--453. See
Ambrosio, L.; Katz, M.: Flat currents modulo p in metric spaces and filling radius inequalities, Commentarii Math. Helvetici 86 (2011), no. 3, 557--591. DOI: 10.4171/CMH/234 See
Katz, Karin Usadi; Katz, M.: Bi-Lipschitz approximation by finite-dimensional imbeddings. Geometriae Dedicata 150 (2011) no. 1, 131--136. See
year '10
Katz, K.; Katz, M.: Zooming in on infinitesimal 1-.9.. in a post-triumvirate era. Educational Studies in Mathematics 74 (2010), no. 3, 259-273. See
Katz, M.; Shnider, S.: Cayley 4-form, comass, and triality isomorphisms. Israel J. Math. 178 (2010), 187-208. See
Katz, K.; Katz, M.: When is .999... less than 1? The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast, Vol. 7 (2010), No. 1, pp. 3--30. See
year '09
Horowitz, C.; Katz, Karin Usadi; Katz, M.: Loewner's torus inequality with isosystolic defect. Journal of Geometric Analysis 19 (2009), no. 4, 796-808. See
Balacheff, F.; Croke C.; Katz, M.: A Zoll counterexample to a geodesic length conjecture. Geometric and Functional Analysis (GAFA), 19 (2009), no. 1, 1-10.
Bangert, V; Katz, M.; Shnider, S.; Weinberger, S.: E7, Wirtinger inequalities, Cayley 4-form, and homotopy. Duke Math. J. 146 (2009), no. 1, 35-70. See
year '08
Dranishnikov, A.; Katz, M.; Rudyak, Y.: Small values of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category for manifolds. Geometry and Topology 12 (2008), 1711-1727. See
Katz, M.; Rudyak, Y.: Bounding volume by systoles of 3-manifolds. Journal of London Math. Society 78 (2008), no 2, 407-417. See arXiv:math.DG/0504008.
Katz, M.: Systolic inequalities and Massey products in simply-connected manifolds. Israel J. Math. 164 (2008), 381-395. See arXiv:math.DG/0604012.
year '07
Katz, M.; Schaps, M.; Vishne, U.: Logarithmic growth of systole of arithmetic Riemann surfaces along congruence subgroups. J. Differential Geom. 76 (2007), no. 3, 399-422. See arXiv:math.DG/0505007.
Bangert, V; Croke, C.; Ivanov, S.; Katz, M.: Boundary case of equality in optimal Loewner-type inequalities. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (2007), no. 1, 1--17. See https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406008
year '06
Katz, M.; Rudyak, Y.: Sabourau, S.: Systoles of 2-complexes, Reeb graph, and Grushko decomposition. Int. Math. Res. Not. 2006 (2006). Art. ID 54936, pp. 1--30. See arXiv:math.DG/0602009.
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S.: An optimal systolic inequality for CAT(0) metrics in genus two. Pacific J. Math. 227 (2006), no. 1, 95-107. See arXiv:math.DG/0501017.
Katz, M.; Rudyak, Y.: Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and systolic category of low dimensional manifolds. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 59 (2006), no. 10, 1433-1456. See arXiv:math.DG/0410456.
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S.: Hyperelliptic surfaces are Loewner. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), no. 4, 1189-1195. See arXiv:math.DG/0407009.
year '05
Katz, M.; Sabourau, S.: Entropy of systolically extremal surfaces and asymptotic bounds, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 25 (2005) no. 4, 1209-1220. See http://doi.org/10.1017/S0143385704001014 and http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410312 and https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2158402
Bangert, V; Croke, C.; Ivanov, S.; Katz, M.: Filling area conjecture and ovalless real hyperelliptic surfaces, Geometric and Functional Analysis (GAFA) 15 (2005), no. 3, 577-597. See arXiv:math.DG/0405583.
Katz, M.; Lescop, C.: Filling area conjecture, optimal systolic inequalities, and the fiber class in abelian covers. Proceedings of conference and workshop in memory of R. Brooks, held at the Technion, IMCP, Contemporary Mathematics 387 (2005), 181-200. Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I. See https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412011
year '04
Bangert, V; Katz, M.: An optimal Loewner-type systolic inequality and
harmonic one-forms of constant norm.
Comm. Anal. Geom. 12 (2004), number 3, 703-732.
See arXiv:math.DG/0304494.
Ivanov, S.; Katz, M.: Generalized degree and optimal Loewner-type inequalities. Israel J. Math. 141 (2004), 221-233. See arXiv:math.DG/0405019.
year '03
Bangert, V.; Katz, M.: Stable systolic inequalities and cohomology
products.
Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 56 (2003), 979--997. See arXiv:math.DG/0204181.
Croke, C.; Katz, M.: Universal volume bounds in Riemannian manifolds. Surveys in Differential Geometry VIII, Lectures on Geometry and Topology held in honor of Calabi, Lawson, Siu, and Uhlenbeck at Harvard University, May 3- 5, 02, edited by S.T. Yau (Somerville, MA: International Press, 2003.) pp. 109 - 137. See arXiv:math.DG/0302248.
Katz, M.: Four-manifold systoles and surjectivity of period map. Comment. Math. Helv. 78 (2003), 772-876. See arXiv:math.DG/0302306.
year '02
Katz, M. Local calibration of mass and systolic geometry.
Geom. Funct. Anal. (GAFA) 12, issue 3 (2002), 598-621. See
arXiv:math.DG/0204182.
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