Books: African Americans in Mathematics I, II
African Americans in Mathematics (1996) and African Americans in Mathematics II (1999) are two books that contain mathematics research articles, graduate student tutorials, history articles, and sociological articles are connected with the Conferences for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (see CAARMS). There are reviews of these books here (AAM1) and here (AAM2). Note African Americans in Mathematics should appear in 2000.
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On this web page I list the table of contents of these books.
African Americans in Mathematics
African Americans in Mathematics II
African Americans in Mathematics III
African Americans in Mathematics
The first section of this book contains eight of the invited research talks:
1. Chain decomposition theorems for ordered
sets and other musings by Jonathan David Farley of MSRI and
Vanderbilt University.
2. Unimodality and the independent set numbers of matroids
by Carolyn R. Mahoney.
3. On achieving channels in a bipolar game by Curtis Clark
of Morehouse College.
4. Discrete approximation of invariant measures for multidimensional
maps by Walter M. Miller of Howard University.
5. Some numerical methods for a maximum entropy problem
by Nathaniel Whittaker of the University of Massachusetts.
6. Hydrodynamic stability, differential operators and spectral
theory by Isom Herron of Rennselear Polytechnic Institute.
7.The role of Selberg's trace formula in the computation of
Casmir energy for certain Clifford-Klein space-times by Floyd
L. Williams of the University of Massachusetts.
8. Some dynamics on the irrationals by Scott W. Williams
of the State University of New York, Buffalo.
In the second section are contained seven papers by students that were included in the Poster Presentation session of CAARMS2:
1. Finding elliptic curves defined over
Q of high rank by Garikai Campbell.
2. Symplectic matrix structure in numerical integration
by Michael Keeve of Georgia Institute of Technology.
3. A numerical algorithm for the computation of invariant circles
by Kossi Edoh of Simon Fraser University.
4. Classification of nilpotent orbits in symmetric spaces
by Alfred G. Noel of Northeastern University.
5. Evaluating texture measures for low-level features in color
images of human skin by Kori E. Needham of the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
6. Lattice paths and RNA secondary structures by Asamoah
Nkwanta of Howard University.
7. Nuprl as a concurrent interactive theorem prover by
Roderick Moten of Cornell University.
The material in the third section, of interest to a more general audience, contains
1. Yesterday, today and tomorrow by
Lee Lorch of York University,
2. The Challenge of Diversity by Etta Z. Falconer of Spelman
College,
3. What next? A meta-history of black mathematicians by
Patricia Clark Kenschaft of Montclair State University,
4. A personal history of the origins of the National Association
of Mathematicians' ``Presentations by Recipients of Recent Ph.
D.'s'' by Donald M. Hill of Florida A & M University
5. Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr.: The Man and his works by
Nkechi Agwu of Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City
University of New York and Asamoah Nkwanta of Howard University.
African Americans in Mathematics II
1. E. A. Terry -- Finite sums and products
in Ramsey theory
2. P. J. Williams, A. S. El-Bakry, and R. A. Tapia -- Computing
an exact solution in interior-point methods for linear programming
3. R. Moten -- Just the facts, Jack: Truths and myths of automated
theorem provers
4. J. E. Brown -- On the Sendov conjecture for polynomials with
real critical points
5. L. Billings, J. H. Curry, and V. Robins -- Chaos in relaxed
Newton's method: The quadratic case
6. G. M. N'guerekata -- Almost automorphic functions and applications
to abstract evolution equations
7. A. Fauntleroy -- Moduli of complete intersections in weighted
projective spaces
8. D. R. King -- Asymptotic behavior of characters of representations
of semi-simple Lie groups
Poster presentations
1. A. Nkwanta and N. Knox -- A note on Riordan
matrices
2. K. Weems -- Robustness of parameter estimates in misspecified
generalized linear mixed models
General interest
R. Tapia -- Contemporary national mathematics
education issues and the civic mathematician
J. L. Houston -- A brief history of the National Association of
Mathematicians, Inc.
S. W. Williams -- Black research mathematicians in the United
States
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