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The Legacy of Sonya Kovalevskaya
About this Title
Linda Keen, Editor
Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year:
1987; Volume 64
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5067-1 (print); 978-0-8218-7654-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/064
MathSciNet review: 881453
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Front/Back Matter
Kovalevskaya—her life and work
- Ann Hibner Koblitz – Sofia Kovalevskaia—a biographical sketch [MR 881454]
- Roger Cooke – Sonya Kovalevskaya’s place in nineteenth-century mathematics [MR 881455]
- Ann Hibner Koblitz – Changing views of Sofia Kovalevskaia [MR 881456]
Geometry and dynamical systems
- Dennis M. DeTurck and Carolyn S. Gordon – Isospectral metrics and finite Riemannian coverings [MR 881457]
- Jozef Dodziuk, Thea Pignataro, Burton Randol and Dennis Sullivan – Estimating small eigenvalues of Riemann surfaces [MR 881458]
- Tilla Klotz Milnor – A conformal analog of Bernstein’s theorem for timelike surfaces in Minkowski $3$-space [MR 881459]
- Richard S. Palais and Chuu-Lian Terng – Geometry of canonical forms [MR 881460]
- Emma Previato – Flows on $r$-gonal Jacobians [MR 881461]
- Michael Shub and Alphonse Thomas Vasquez – Some linearly induced Morse-Smale systems, the QR algorithm and the Toda lattice [MR 881462]
- Chuu-Lian Terng – Some geometric developments related to Kowalewski’s work [MR 881463]
- Patricia Bauman – Large-time behavior of solutions to a scalar conservation law in several space dimensions [MR 881464]
- Hans Engler – Strong solutions for strongly damped quasilinear wave equations [MR 881465]
- Enrico Bombieri and Jean E. Taylor – Quasicrystals, tilings, and algebraic number theory: some preliminary connections [MR 881466]
- John W. Cahn and Jean E. Taylor – An introduction to quasicrystals [MR 881467]
- Jean E. Taylor – Geometric analysis in crystalline media [MR 881468]