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African Americans in Mathematics
About this Title
Nathaniel Dean, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, Editor
Publication: DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Publication Year:
1997; Volume 34
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1142-9 (print); 978-1-4704-3992-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/034
MathSciNet review: MR1482250
MSC: Primary 00B25
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Part I. Invited research talks.
- Chain decomposition theorems for ordered sets and other musings
- Unimodality and the independent set numbers of matroids
- On achieving channels in a bipolar game
- Discrete approximation of invariant measures for multidimensional maps
- Some numerical methods for a maximum entropy problem
- Hydrodynamic stability, differential operators and spectral theory
- The role of Selberg’s trace formula in the computation of Casimir energy for certain Clifford-Klein space-times
- Some dynamics on the irrationals
Part II. Poster presentations.
- Finding elliptic curves defined over $Q$ of high rank
- Symplectic matrix structure in numerical integration
- A numerical algorithm for the computation of invariant circles
- Classification of nilpotent orbits in symmetric spaces
- Evaluation texture measures for low-level features in color images of human skin
- Lattice paths and RNA secondary structures
- Nuprl as a concurrent interactive theorem prover
Part III. Historical articles.