The Chauvenet papers : a collection of prize-winning expository papers in mathematics / J.C. Abbott, editor.
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[Washington, D.C.] :
Mathematical Association of America,
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Table of Contents:
- Vol. 1: William Chauvenet / J.A. Tierney
- Algebraic functions and their divisors / Gilbert Ames Bliss
- The Borel theorem and its generalizations / Theophil Henry Hildebrandt
- Appendix / E.J. McShane
- An introduction to the theory of numbers / Godfrey Harold Hardy
- Series of orthogonal polynomials / Dunham Jackson
- Orthogonal trigonometric sums / Dunham Jackson
- The convergence of fourier series / Dunham Jackson
- Appendix / Guido Weiss
- On the structure of continua / Gordon Thomas Whyburn
- Appendix / F.B. Jones
- Some recent advances in algebra / Saunders MacLane
- Modular fields / Saunders MacLane
- Some introductory exercises in the manipulation of fourier transforms / Robert H. Cameron
- The foundations of probability / Paul Richard Halmos
- Appendix / Colin Blyth
- Random walk and the theory of Brownian motion / Mark Kac
- Appendix / Mark Kac
- Partial orderings and Moore-Smith limits / Edward James McShane
- Appendix / E.J. McShane
- Recent advances in the foundation sof Euclidean plane geometry / Richard Hubert Bruck
- Appendix / R.H. Bruch.
- Vol. 2: Linear systems in self-adjoint form / Cornelius Lanczos
- Leonhard Euler's integral: a historical profile of the gamma function / Philip J. Davis
- Are logic and mathematics identical? / Leon A. Henkin
- Differential equations: linearity vs. non-linearity / Jack K Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- Harmonic Analysis / Guido L. Weiss
- Can one hear the shape of a drum? / Mark Kac
- Curves and surfaces in Euclidean space / Shiing-Shen Chern
- A motivated account of an elementary proof of the prime number theorem / Norman Levinson
- On local solvability of lineary partial differential equations / Jean Francois Treves
- The simple continued fraction expansion of e / Carl Douglas Olds
- The formation and decay of shock waves / Peter D. Lax
- Hilbert's tenth problem / Martin D. Davis and Reuben Hersh
- Real proofs of complex theorems (and vice versa) / Lawrence Zalcman.