Table of Contents

• G. B. Dantzig -- Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming
• L. Gårding -- Functional analysis in the theory of partial differential equations
• F. C. Hoppensteadt -- Some influences of population biology on mathematics
• K. Kreith -- PDE generalizations of the Sturm comparison theorem
• J. Neyman and R. Price -- Stochastic theory of epidemics-continuing efforts to achieve realism
• W. Wasow -- The origins of turning point theory