Robert Gilmore, a Portrait

H G SOLARI

Topology and Dynamics of Chaos

World Publisher

Año: 2013; p. 331 - 340

To present the personality of Bob Gilmore is a formidable task, as his scientificcontributions include group theory, laser physics, non-linear dynamics, catastro-phe theory, thermodynamics, dynamical systems, quantum theory and more. Buteven if we succeed in describing his contributions, much of Gilmore´s being wouldbe lost. Bob as advisor, Bob as father, Bob as teacher, Bob as scientific com-municator reveal as much of Bob Gilmore as his scientific papers and his books.Very much as in the Group Theory so close to him, there is a Robert Gilmore inabstract as well as representations of Robert Gilmore. We will make an attemptto find the "principle of the rule", the abstract level of Robert Gilmore as well asRobert Gilmore, himself, as a representation of the duality science-humanism.