Stanley Farlow
Stanley Jerome Farlow (born 1937) is an American mathematician specializing in differential equations. For many years he has been a professor at the University of Maine.
Stanley Farlow | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1937 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Oregon State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Maine University |
| Doctoral advisor | Ronald Bernard Guenther |
Life
Farlow earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Iowa.[1] He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Oregon State University in 1967. His doctoral supervisor was Ronald Bernard Guenther, and his doctoral dissertation was on Existence Theorems for Periodic Solutions of Parabolic Partial Differential Equations.[2]
He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Maine.[1]
Books
Farlow is the author of several books in mathematics, including
- Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (Wiley, 1982; Russian translation, Moscow: Mir, 1985; Dover, 1993)[3]
- Finite Mathematics and Its Applications (with Gary M. Haggard, Random House, 1988; 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 1994)
- Introduction to Calculus with Applications (with Gary M. Haggard, McGraw Hill, 1990)
- An Introduction to Differential Equations and Their Applications (McGraw Hill, 1994; Dover, 2006)
- Paradoxes in Mathematics (Dover, 2014)[4]
He is also the editor of:
- Self-Organizing Methods in Modeling: GMDH Type Algorithms (Marcel Dekker, 1984)
References
- "Home page". University of Maine Mathematics Department. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- Stanley Farlow at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Reviews of Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers:
- Morgan, K. (1983), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 19 (4): 625, doi:10.1002/nme.1620190413
- Becker, Stephen F. (1985), American Journal of Physics 53: 702, doi:10.1119/1.14292
- Tweddle, J. Christopher (January 2010), MAA Reviews
- Reviews of Paradoxes in Mathematics:
- Becker, Glenn (October 2014), MAA Reviews
- Cobreros, Pablo, MR3243572
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