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Title 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.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, c1969.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  510.72 M42    ---  Available
Description x, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note "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.
Subject Mathematics -- Research.
Added Author Boehm, George A. W.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Support of Research in the Mathematical Sciences
ISBN 0262030268

 
    
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