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The Legacy of Norbert Wiener: A Centennial Symposium
About this Title
David Jerison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Isadore M. Singer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Daniel W. Stroock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Editors
Publication: Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
Publication Year:
1997; Volume 60
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0415-5 (print); 978-0-8218-9363-0 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/pspum/060
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Front/Back Matter
Biographical and historical remarks
- David Jerison and Daniel W. Stroock – Norbert Wiener [MR 1460269]
- Peter Elias – The rise and fall of cybernetics in the US and the USSR [MR 1460270]
- Dirk Struik – Reminiscences of Norbert Wiener [MR 1460271]
- Fagi Levinson – Speech by Fagi Levinson. [Recollections about Norbert Wiener.] [MR 1460272]
- Paul A. Samuelson – Some memories of Norbert Wiener [MR 1460273]
- Edited by David Jerison, Isadore M. Singer and Daniel W. Stroock – Pictures
Scientific articles
- Jean Bourgain – Gibbs measures, quasi-periodic solutions and nonlinear partial differential equations [MR 1460274]
- Lennart Carleson – Wiener’s Tauberian theorem [MR 1460275]
- Leon Ehrenpreis – The role of Paley-Wiener theory in partial differential equations [MR 1460276]
- Victor Guillemin – Paley-Wiener on manifolds [MR 1460277]
- Thomas Kailath – Norbert Wiener and the development of mathematical engineering [MR 1460278]
- Nancy Kopell – Oscillating networks of neurons: mathematics and function [MR 1460279]
- Eric S. Lander – Mapping heredity: using probabilistic models and algorithms to map genes and genomes [MR 1460280]
- Andrew W. Lo – A non-random walk down Wall Street [MR 1460281]
- Paul Malliavin – Filtered Wiener space versus abstract Wiener space [MR 1460282]
- Vladimir Maz′ya – Unsolved problems connected with the Wiener criterion [MR 1460283]
- Robert C. Merton – On the role of the Wiener process in finance theory and practice: the case of replicating portfolios [MR 1460284]
- Sanjoy K. Mitter – Inference, learning, and recognition [MR 1460285]
- David Mumford – Issues in the mathematical modeling of cortical functioning and thought [MR 1460286]
- David R. Nelson and Randall D. Kamien – Polymer braids and iterated moiré maps [MR 1460287]
- Tomaso Poggio – Networks that learn and how the brain works [MR 1460288]
- Charles S. Sanford, Jr. and Dan Borge – The risk management revolution [MR 1460289]
- Irving Segal – Complex noncommutative infinite-dimensional analysis and fermion-boson interactions [MR 1460290]
- Johannes Sjöstrand – Complex integral transforms, diffraction, resonances and phase space tunneling [MR 1460291]
- Thomas Spencer – Scaling, the free field and statistical mechanics [MR 1460292]
- Harold Widom – Wiener-Hopf integral equations [MR 1460293]