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.
Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, ©1987.
xiii, 297 págs. : ilustraciones ; 26 cm.
Serie: Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; v. 64
ISBN: 0821850679 (pbk.)
Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
Reseña: MathSciNet, 87j:01001
Contenido
- 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.