The Mathematical sciences : a collection of essays / edited by the National Research Council's Committee on Support of Research in the Mathematical Sciences (COSRIMS) with the collaboration of George A. W. Boehm.
"Published for the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
The Applicability of mathematics / Stanislaw Ulam -- Complex Analysis / Lipman Bers -- The Social sciences call on mathematics / John G. Kemeny -- Topology of Molecules / Joshua Lederberg -- Non-Euclidean geometry / H. S. M. Coxeter -- Statistical inference / J. Kiefer -- Functional analysis / J. T. Schwartz -- Vector spaces and their applications / E. J. McShane -- Mathematics in the physical sciences / Freeman J. Dyson -- Analytic functions and elementary particles / A. S. Wightman -- Numerical analysis / Philip J. Davis -- Solving a quadratic equation on a computer / George E. Forsythe -- The Algebraization of mathematics / Samuel Eilenberg -- The Role of mathematics in economics / Lawrence R. Klein -- The Evolution of differential topology / Andrew M. Gleason -- Mathematical linguistics / Zellig Harris -- Combinatorial analysis / Gian-Carlo Rota -- Point-set topology / R. H. Bing -- Mathematics and the biomedical sciences / Hirsh Cohen -- Probability / Mark Kac -- The Continuum Hypothesis / Raymond M. Smullyan -- Prospects of computer science / J. T. Schwartz.