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150 Years of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis

Gary R. Jensen and Steven G. Krantz, editor
Publisher: 
American Mathematical Society
Publication Date: 
2006
Number of Pages: 
145
Format: 
Paperback
Series: 
Contemporary Mathematics 395
Price: 
49.00
ISBN: 
082183603X
Category: 
Festschrift
We do not plan to review this book.

Preface ix

Scenes from the Sesquicentennial Celebration xi

An Anecdotal History of the Washington University Mathematics Department

Steven G. Krantz 1

Washington University in St. Louis: Department of Mathematics Dissertation

List 13

Washington University in St. Louis: History of the Mathematics Faculty at the

University 25

Geometry of Manifolds with Special Holonomy: “100 years of holonomy”

Robert L. Bryant 29

Geometric Harmonic Analysis in High Dimensions: Challenges and

Opportunities

R. R. Coifman 39

An Analogue of Hilbert’s Seventeenth Problem in One Complex Dimension

John P. D’Angelo 47

Hypoelliptic Second Order Equations that Lose Derivatives

J. J. Kohn 59

Stokes’ Theorem and Minimal Surfaces

H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. 67

L2 Estimates on Twisted Cauchy-Riemann Complexes

Jeffery D. McNeal 83

From Wavelets to Atoms

Yves Meyer 105

The Mathematics of General Relativity: Problems and Progress

Richard Schoen 119

Panel Discussion

R. R. Coifman, Aline Bonami, Robert Bryant,

and John P. D’Angelo 133

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