The Golden Anniversary Celebration of the National Association of Mathematicians

ISBN-13: 9781470451301

Omayra Ortega;Emille Davie Lawrence;Edray Herber Goins

Opis

This volume is put together by the National Association of Mathematicians to commemorate its 50th anniversary. The articles in the book are based on lectures presented at several events at the Joint Mathematics Meeting held from January 16-19, 2019, in Baltimore, Maryland, including the Claytor-Woodard Lecture as well as the NAM David Harold Blackwell Lecture, which was held on August 2, 2019, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Spis treści

• The founding of the National Association of Mathematicians, Inc. (NAM)
• An overview of mathematical modeling of geometric optics problems involving refraction
• Women who count: Using the positive narratives of African American women mathematicians to motivate students and build positive mathematics identities
• A constructive proof of Masser's Theorem
• On the existence of $C^{(n)}$-almost automorphic mild solutions of certain differential equations in Banach spaces
• A first hitting time approach to finding effective spreaders in a network
• Peer-led team learning and its effect on mathematics self-efficacy and anxiety in a developmental mathematics course
• A discreteness algorithm for 4-punctured sphere groups
• Catalan and Motzkin integral representations
• The research of seven students at Howard University
• Complex variables, mesh generation, and 3D web graphics: Research and technology behind the visualizations in the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
• A linear programming method for exponential domination
• The first 50 years of the National Association of Mathematicians, Inc. (NAM).