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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788653503321

Titolo

African-Americans in mathematics II : fourth Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, June 16-19, 1998, Rice University, Houston, Texas / / Nathaniel Dean, Cassandra M. McZeal, Pamela J. Williams, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

0-8218-7842-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 2071-4132 ; ; 252

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Mathematics

African American mathematicians

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of participants""; ""Part I: Research Talks""; ""Finite sums and products in Ramsey theory""; ""Computing an exact solution in interior-point methods for linear programming""; ""Just the facts, Jack: Truths and myths of automated theorem provers""; ""On the Sendov conjecture for polynomials with real critical points""; ""Chaos in relaxed Newton's method: The quadratic case""; ""Almost automorphic functions and applications to abstract evolution equations""; ""Moduli of complete intersections in weighted projective spaces""

""Asymptotic behavior of characters of representations of semi-simple Lie groups""""Part II: Poster Presentations""; ""A note on Riordan matrices""; ""Robustness of parameter estimates in misspecified generalized linear mixed models""; ""Part III: Historical Articles""; ""Contemporary national mathematics education issues and the civic mathematician""; ""A brief history of the National Association of Mathematicians, Inc""; ""Black research mathematicians in the United States""