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Shirley was raised by her mother in rural, segregated Georgia just before the national civil rights movement. As an African-American child in a small southern town, she encountered both prejudice and peer pressure that tried to discourage her determination to succeed. Never giving up, she earned a Ph.D. in mathematics--the first African- American to earn a doctorate from the University of Georgia and went on to become Dean of Student Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Read more

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What an inspiring story!
Banneker is such a great role model for middle-schoolers!And Ms. Litwin has done a superb job of recreating life in his time.Any young person, but especially an African-American, will be thrilled by this fine andhistorically accurate biography of a self-taught free black man who helpedcreate our nation's capital and who corresponded with Thomas Jeffersonabout slavery.

A Must Read WIth Tons Of Great Info!
Are you interested in a great bioagraphy on a phenomenal free African American? Well, then this book is for you. It is worded simple enough to really understand and challenging enough to keep you interested. With greatpictures, this non-fiction is a must read for informationalpurposes(reports, etc.) and for pleasure! ... Read more

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This volume contains nine papers presented as 45-minute orone-hour addresses at the International Congress ofMathematicians in Berkeley in 1986. In the original proceedingsvolume of ICM-86, published by the AMS in 1988, these papersappeared in the Russian. They have since been translated andcollected in the present volume, to insure their broaddissemination. Among the topics represented here are stochasticprocesses, logic, number theory, functions of a complexvariable, functional analysis, Fourier analysis, numericalanalysis, and theoretical computer science. ... Read more

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This book is about mathematics in Sweden between 1630 and1950---from S. Klingenstierna to M. Riesz, T. Carleman, and A.Beurling. It tells the story of how continental mathematics cameto Sweden, how it was received, and how it inspired new results.The book contains a biography of Gösta Mittag-Leffler, thefather of Swedish mathematics, who introduced the Weierstrassiantheory of analytic functions and dominated a golden age from1880 to 1910.

Important results are analyzed and re-proved in modern notation,with explanations of their relations to mathematics at the time.The book treats Bäcklund transformations, Mittag-Leffler'stheorem, the Phragmén-Lindelöf theorem andCarleman's contributions to the spectral theorem, quantummechanics, and the asymptotics of eigenvalues andeigenfunctions. Other important features include sketches ofpersonalities and university life.

Features:

Presents the first thorough treatment of mathematics in Sweden.

Discusses the work of the great mathematicians and thedevelopment of mathematics throughout Europe.

Brings the mathematics of an era to life in an informative andhighly readable way. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 7401 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This review article explores the relationship between the artisans and mathematicians of medieval Islam by examining the earliest historical sources in which such a relationship is depicted, and by focusing especially on the technical language that was used to describe the actual functions of one type of artisan, namely, the architect or master builder. It also argues for the need to draw necessary distinctions between the various types of artisans in order to delineate the exact dimensions of their relationship with theoretical mathematicians. As an example, it demonstrates how a group of early texts could be used to prove the close relationship that had developed between artisans, who were instrument makers, and theoretical mathematicians.

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Title: ARTISANS AND MATHEMATICIANS IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM.
Author: George Saliba
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1999
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 119Issue: 4Page: 637

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Fourth Conference forAfrican-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences heldat the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at RiceUniversity (Houston). The included talks and posterpresentations offer a broad perspective to the critical issuesinvolving minority participation in mathematics. The issuesexplored are relevant not only to African American researchers,but also to the mathematical community in general.

This volume is the second published by the AMS (see DIMACSseries, volume 34) presenting expository and research papers bydistinguished African American mathematicians. In addition tofilling the existing gap on African American contributions tomathematics, this book provides leadership direction and rolemodels for students. ... Read more

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This volume contains research and expository papers byAfrican-American mathematicians on issues related to theirinvolvement in the mathematical sciences. Little is known,taught, or written about African-American mathematicians.Information is lacking on their past and present contributionsand on the qualitative and quantitative nature of theirexistence in and distribution throughout mathematics. This lackof information leads to a number of questions that have to dateremained unanswered. This volume provides details and pointersto help answer some of these questions.

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Research articles by distinguished African-Americanmathematicians.

Accomplishments of African-American researchers in themathematical sciences.

Articles that explore issues important to the African-Americancommunity and to the mathematics community as a whole.

Inspiration for African-American students who wish to pursueadvancement in the mathematical sciences. ... Read more

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Benjamin Banneker review
Inside Benjamin Banneker: Scientist and Mathematician lies many secrets of the life of one of the 18th centuries most accomplished black Americans. To find out more about this man, read the book by Kevin Conley. The book is all about the life of Benjamin Banneker, an 18th century free black American who wrote almanacs and was an original surveyor of Washington D.C. I would recommend this book to any Americans who wanted to learn more about the people involved with the history of their country.
This book being a biography, I feel that I must review my thoughts on the man being written about. Benjamin Banneker was a very important man of our country, and this book does him justice. He was a man of many accomplishments, and none of them were easy to come by. He had to manage a tobacco farm and complete astronomy calculations all while trying to get his almanac published.He was a hard worker, and that is why I admire him.
One aspect of the book that I was really impressed with was the way the author used vivid vocabulary in just the right spots. He described everyhitng that was important with enhanced vocabulary and detail. An example of this would be when the author was describing the detail of Mr. Bannekers work he would use phrases like "nearly incomprehensible" or "mind boggling". The vocabulary in this book made it much more interesting than it would have been if it had not been used so well.
I think that the author of this book did Mr. Banneker the justice he deserved. He includes all of the major things that Banneker accomplished in his life and really makes it feel like you know him. He included many helpful visuals and pictures of Mr. Banneker's work, which really made the reader understand how hard the things he was doing were.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about one of the great people that lived before them. Overall, Benjamin Banneker: Scientist And Mathematician is a very good book and should be read by all.




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A strong statement about the professional diversity in the field of mathematics
Since it is almost totally a collection of research papers published before 1980 and written by black mathematicians, there is no central mathematical theme to this book. The range of the papers is wide, from mathematics education to group theory. However, it is a strong statement about the professional diversity in the field of mathematics. Blacks have made major contributions to the advancement of science and mathematics and this book is a partial description of that fact. It is well worth looking over, even if the topics covered are not in your area of interest. ... Read more

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The International Congress of Mathematicians was an historicalevent that was held at the Morningside Center of Mathematics ofthe Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing). It was the firstoccasion where Chinese mathematicians from all over the worldgathered to present their research.

The Morningside Mathematics lectures were given by R. Borcherds,J. Coates, R. Graham, and D. Stroock. Other distinguishedspeakers included J.-P. Bourguignon, J. Jöst, M. Taylor,and S. L. Lee. Topics covered in the volume include algebra andrepresentation theory, algebraic geometry, number theory andautomorphic forms, Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis,mathematical physics, topology, complex analysis and complexgeometry, computational mathematics, and combinatorics. ... Read more

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This is the true story of a little girl, Caryn Navy, who, after she became blind at age 10, began to find mathematics fascinating. An independent girl, she learned to travel the subways of New York by herself, trained with a seeing-eye dog, went to college in another state, and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics and computer science. Caryn married an electrical engineer and together they started their own successful computer company. ... Read more