Product Description: This collection of contributed articles comprises the scientific program of the fifth annual Prairie Analysis Seminar. All articles represent important current advances in the areas of partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, and Fourier analysis...read more

Product Description: During the past decade, mathematics education has changed rapidly, giving rise to a polarization of opinions among the community of research mathematicians. What is the appropriate balance among theory, technique, and applications? What is the role of technology? How do we fulfill the needs of students entering other fields? The purpose of this volume, the proceedings of a conference held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley in 1996, is to present a serious discussion of these educational issues, with a balanced representation of opposing ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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