TL;DR
This paper celebrates Allan Kaufman's influential career in physics, highlighting his work on magnetohydrodynamics memes and their impact across plasma physics and mathematics.
Contribution
It revisits a key magnetohydrodynamics meme from Kaufman's early work and discusses his broader influence on interdisciplinary research.
Findings
Revisits the magnetohydrodynamic mode continuation through singularities.
Highlights Kaufman's cross-disciplinary impact in physics and mathematics.
Emphasizes the role of memes in scientific idea exchange.
Abstract
The celebration of Allan Kaufman's 80th birthday was an occasion to reflect on a career that has stimulated the mutual exchange of ideas (or memes in the terminology of Richard Dawkins) between many researchers. This paper will revisit a meme Allan encountered in his early career in magnetohydrodynamics, the continuation of a magnetohydrodynamic mode through a singularity, and will also mention other problems where Allan's work has had a powerful cross-fertilizing effect in plasma physics and other areas of physics and mathematics.
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