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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, c1987. xiii, 297 p. : il. ; 26 cm. — (Contemporary mathematics, ISSN 0271-4132 ; v. 64)
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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.
ISBN 0821850679 (pbk.)
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