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Essays in the history of mathematics / Arthur Schlissel, editor.

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Essays in the history of mathematics / Arthur Schlissel, editor.
Publication
Providence, R.I., USA : American Mathematical Society, [1984]

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Additional Authors
  • Schlissel, Arthur
  • American Mathematical Society
Description
v, 73 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
"The papers in this volume represent the talks given at the special session on the history of mathematics held at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, San Francisco, California, January 7-11, 1981. The invited speakers were researchers of mathematics who spoke about some historical aspect of their particular area of interest. Thus, the presented papers were views of subjects through the eyes of those who helped shape, develop, contribute to them."--Introduction.
Series Statement
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 0065-9266 ; no. 298
Uniform Title
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society no. 298.
Subject
  • Geschichte
  • Mathematics > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "The papers in this volume represent the talks given at the special session on the history of mathematics held at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, San Francisco, California, January 7-11, 1981"--Introd.
  • "March 1984."
  • "Volume 48, number 298 (end of volume)"
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Arthur Schlissel -- Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming / George B. Dantzig -- Functional analysis in the theory of partial differential equations / Lars Garding -- Some influences of population biology on mathematics / Frank C. Hoppensteadt -- PDE generalizations of the Sturm comparison theorem / Kurt Kreith -- Stochastic theory of epidemics : continuing efforts to achieve realism / Jerzy Neyman and Ralph Price -- The origins of turning point theory / Wolfgang Wasow.
ISBN
0821822985 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^83026642^
OCLC
  • 10299938
  • SCSB-12641774
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library