Donald J. Albers

Mathematical people : profiles and interviews

This unique collection contains extensive and in-depth interviews with mathematicians who have shaped the field of mathematics in the twentieth century. Collected by two mathematicians respected in the community for their skill in communicating mathematical topics to a broader audience, the book is also rich with photographs and includes an introduction by Philip J. Davis.

An Interview with George B. Dantzig: The Father of Linear Programming

(1986). An Interview with George B. Dantzig: The Father of Linear Programming. The College Mathematics Journal: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 292-314.

More mathematical people : contemporary conversations

Becoming a mathematician, C. Reid Lipman Bers Ralph P. Boas, Jr Paul J. Cohen George B. Dantzig Andrew M. Gleason Bill Gosper Irving Kaplansky Peter D. Lax Lucien Le Cam Hans Lewy Saunders Mac Lane Cathleen S. Morawetz Frederick Mosteller Julia Robinson Mary Ellen Rudin Steve Smale William P. Thurston Robin Wilson.

International mathematical congresses : an illustrated history, 1893-1986

Chicago 1893.- Zurich 1897.- Paris 1900.- Hilbert.- Heidelberg 1904.- Rome 1908.- Cambridge, U.K. 1912.- Strasbourg 1920.- Toronto 1924.- Bologna 1928.- Zurich 1932.- Oslo 1936.- Cambridge, U.S.A. 1950.- Amsterdam 1954.- Edinburgh 1958.- Stockholm 1962.- Moscow 1966.- Nice 1970.- Vancouver 1974.- Helsinki 1978.- Warsaw 1983.- Berkeley 1986.- Fields Medalists.- Plenary Lectures.- Acknowledgements.

A Conversation with Henry Pollak

Henry O. Pollak is Director of the Mathematics and Statistics Research Center of Bell Laboratories. He is responsible for research on the mathematics of physics and networks, communication theory, discrete systems, statistics and data analysis. As Director, he administers a remarkable group of highly skilled mathematicians who not only create beautiful mathematics but who are remarkably adept at drawing inspiration from and linking mathematics to real-world applications. Pollak is a strong advocate of incorporating applications into the mathematics curriculum at all levels of education. For more than a quarter century, he has worked very hard to improve mathematics instruction. Despite his heavy adminis? trative responsibilities at Bell Laboratories, he has found time to serve professional mathematics associations in this country and overseas. Most recently, he was Chairman of the Fourth International Congress on Mathematical Education and President of the Mathematical Association of America.

Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs

Foreword by Philip J. Davis vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Sources xv One: Lars V. Ahlfors 1 Two: Tom Apostol 17 Three: Harold M. Bacon 43 Four: Tom Banchoff 52 Five: Leon Bankoff 79 Six: Alice Beckenbach 96 Seven: Arthur Benjamin 107 Eight: Dame Mary L. Cartwright 129 Nine: Joe Gallian 146 Ten: Richard K. Guy 165 Eleven: Fern Hunt 193 Twelve: Dusa McDuff 215 Thirteen: Donald G. Saari 240 Fourteen: Atle Selberg 254 Fifteen: Jean Taylor 274 Sixteen: Philippe Tondeur 294 Biographical Notes 319 Glossary 321 Index 325

A Conversation with Robin Wilson

Robin Wilson is a graph theorist at the Open University in England. Although he has longstanding ties with the United States?a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and annual visits to Colorado College, among others?he spends most of his year with his family in Oxford, writing and teaching for the OU. Of his thirteen books in graph theory and combinatorics, his first, Introduction to Graph Theory, has appeared in three editions and in translations into Spanish, Russian, German, Italian, Polish, and Japanese. But his interests go far beyond graph theory and combinatorics: he has written and co-edited four books on Gilbert and Sullivan

An Interview with Lipman Bers

(1987). An Interview with Lipman Bers. The College Mathematics Journal: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 266-290.