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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