The legacy of Sonya Kovalevskaya : proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, held October 25-28, 1985 / Linda Keen, editor.

Colaborador(es): Kovalevskaia, S. V. (Sof´ia Vasil´evna), 1850-1891 | Keen, Linda | Association for Women in Mathematics (U.S.) | Radcliffe College. Mary Ingraham Bunting InstituteSeries Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society): v. 64.Editor: Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c1987Descripción: xiii, 297 p. : il. ; 26 cmISBN: 0821850679 (pbk.)Tema(s): Mathematics -- Congresses | Kovalevskaia, S. V. (Sof´ia Vasil´evna), 1850-1891 -- Congresses | Women in mathematics -- CongressesOtra clasificación: 01-06 (00B20 01A55 01A70)
Contenidos:
Section 1. Kovalevskaya: her life and work. Ann Hibner Koblitz, Sofia Kovalevskaia: a biographical sketchRoger Cooke, Sonya Kovalevskaya's place in nineteenth-century mathematicsAnn Hibner Koblitz, Changing views of Sofia KovalevskaiaSection 2. Geometry and dynamical systems. Dennis M. DeTurck and Carolyn S. Gordon, Isospectral metrics and finite Riemannian coveringsJozef Dodziuk, Thea Pignataro, Burton Randol and Dennis Sullivan, Estimating small eigenvalues of Riemann surfacesTilla Klotz Milnor, A conformal analog of Bernstein's theorem for timelike surfaces in Minkowski $3$-spaceRichard S. Palais and Chuu-Lian Terng, Geometry of canonical formsEmma Previato, Flows on $r$-gonal JacobiansMichael Shub and Alphonse Thomas Vasquez, Some linearly induced Morse-Smale systems, the QR algorithm and the Toda latticeChuu-Lian Terng, Some geometric developments related to Kowalewski's workSection 3. Analysis. Patricia Bauman, Large-time behavior of solutions to a scalar conservation law in several space dimensionsHans Engler, Strong solutions for strongly damped quasilinear wave equationsSection 4. Applied mathematics. Enrico Bombieri and Jean E. Taylor, Quasicrystals, tilings, and algebraic number theory: some preliminary connectionsJohn W. Cahn and Jean E. Taylor, An introduction to quasicrystalsJean E. Taylor, Geometric analysis in crystalline media.
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Section 1. Kovalevskaya: her life and work. Ann Hibner Koblitz, Sofia Kovalevskaia: a biographical sketch -- Roger Cooke, Sonya Kovalevskaya's place in nineteenth-century mathematics -- Ann Hibner Koblitz, Changing views of Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Section 2. Geometry and dynamical systems. Dennis M. DeTurck and Carolyn S. Gordon, Isospectral metrics and finite Riemannian coverings -- Jozef Dodziuk, Thea Pignataro, Burton Randol and Dennis Sullivan, Estimating small eigenvalues of Riemann surfaces -- Tilla Klotz Milnor, A conformal analog of Bernstein's theorem for timelike surfaces in Minkowski $3$-space -- Richard S. Palais and Chuu-Lian Terng, Geometry of canonical forms -- Emma Previato, Flows on $r$-gonal Jacobians -- Michael Shub and Alphonse Thomas Vasquez, Some linearly induced Morse-Smale systems, the QR algorithm and the Toda lattice -- Chuu-Lian Terng, Some geometric developments related to Kowalewski's work -- Section 3. Analysis. Patricia Bauman, Large-time behavior of solutions to a scalar conservation law in several space dimensions -- Hans Engler, Strong solutions for strongly damped quasilinear wave equations -- Section 4. Applied mathematics. Enrico Bombieri and Jean E. Taylor, Quasicrystals, tilings, and algebraic number theory: some preliminary connections -- John W. Cahn and Jean E. Taylor, An introduction to quasicrystals -- Jean E. Taylor, Geometric analysis in crystalline media.

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