This book is a reference for librarians, mathematicians, and statisticians involved in college and research level mathematics and statistics in the 21st century. We are in a time of transition in scholarly communications in mathematics, practices which have changed little for a hundred years are giving way to new modes of accessing information. Where journals, books, indexes and catalogs were once the physical representation of a good mathematics library, shelves have given way to computers, and users are often accessing information from remote places. Part I is a historical survey of the past 15 years tracking this huge transition in scholarly communications in mathematics. Part II of the book is the bibliography of resources recommended to support the disciplines of mathematics and statistics. These are grouped by type of material. Publication dates range from the 1800's onwards. Hundreds of electronic resources-some online, both dynamic and static, some in fixed media, are listed among the paper resources. Amazingly a majority of listed electronic resources are free.

This invaluable book contains the collected papers of Prof Wei-Liang Chow, an original and versatile mathematician of the 20th Century. Prof Chow''s name has become a household word in mathematics because of the Chow ring, Chow coordinates, and Chow''s theorem on analytic sets in projective spaces. The Chow ring has many advantages and is widely used in intersection theory of algebraic geometry. Chow coordinates have been a very versatile tool in many aspects of algebraic geometry. Chow''s theorem OCo that a compact analytic variety in a projective space is algebraic OCo is justly famous; it shows the close analogy between algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.About Professor Wei-Liang ChowThe long and distinguished career of Prof Wei-Liang Chow (1911OCo95) as a mathematician began in China with professorships at the National Central University in Nanking (1936OCo37) and the National Tung-Chi University in Shanghai (1946OCo47), and ultimately led him to the United States, where he joined the mathematics faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, first as an associate professor from 1948 to 1950, then as a full professor from 1950 until his retirement in 1977.In addition to serving as chairman of the mathematics department at Johns Hopkins from 1955 to 1965, he was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Mathematics from 1953 to 1977."

This collection, in three volumes, presents the scientific achievements of Roderick S C Wong, spanning 45 years of his career. It provides a comprehensive overview of the author's work which includes significant discoveries and pioneering contributions, such as his deep analysis on asymptotic approximations of integrals and uniform asymptotic expansions of orthogonal polynomials and special functions; his important contributions to perturbation methods for ordinary differential equations and difference equations; and his advocation of the Riemann–Hilbert approach for global asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials. The book is an essential source of reference for mathematicians, statisticians, engineers, and physicists. It is also a suitable reading for graduate students and interested senior year undergraduate students. Contents:Volume 1:The Asymptotic Behaviour of μ(z, β,α)A Generalization of Watson's LemmaLinear Equations in Infinite MatricesAsymptotic Solutions of Linear Volterra Integral Equations with Singular KernelsOn Infinite Systems of Linear Differential EquationsError Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of HankelExplicit Error Terms for Asymptotic Expansions of StieltjesExplicit Error Terms for Asymptotic Expansions of MellinAsymptotic Expansion of Multiple Fourier TransformsExact Remainders for Asymptotic Expansions of FractionalAsymptotic Expansion of the Hilbert TransformError Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of IntegralsDistributional Derivation of an Asymptotic ExpansionOn a Method of Asymptotic Evaluation of Multiple IntegralsAsymptotic Expansion of the Lebesgue Constants Associated with Polynomial InterpolationQuadrature Formulas for Oscillatory Integral TransformsGeneralized Mellin Convolutions and Their Asymptotic Expansions,A Uniform Asymptotic Expansion of the Jacobi Polynomials with Error BoundsAsymptotic Expansion of a Multiple IntegralAsymptotic Expansion of a Double Integral with a Curve of Stationary PointsSzegö's Conjecture on Lebesgue Constants for Legendre SeriesUniform Asymptotic Expansions of Laguerre PolynomialsTransformation to Canonical Form for Uniform Asymptotic ExpansionsMultidimensional Stationary Phase Approximation: Boundary Stationary PointTwo-Dimensional Stationary Phase Approximation: Stationary Point at a CornerAsymptotic Expansions for Second-Order Linear Difference EquationsAsymptotic Expansions for Second-Order Linear Difference Equations, IIAsymptotic Behaviour of the Fundamental Solution to ∂u/∂t = –(–Δ)muA Bernstein-Type Inequality for the Jacobi PolynomialError Bounds for Asymptotic Expansions of Laplace ConvolutionsVolume 2:Asymptotic Behavior of the Pollaczek Polynomials and Their ZerosJustification of the Stationary Phase Approximation in Time-Domain AsymptoticsAsymptotic Expansions of the Generalized Bessel PolynomialsUniform Asymptotic Expansions for Meixner Polynomials"Best Possible" Upper and Lower Bounds for the Zeros of the Bessel Function Jν(x)Justification of a Perturbation Approximation of the Klein–Gordon EquationSmoothing of Stokes's Discontinuity for the Generalized Bessel Function. IIUniform Asymptotic Expansions of a Double Integral: Coalescence of Two Stationary PointsUniform Asymptotic Formula for Orthogonal Polynomials with Exponential WeightOn the Asymptotics of the Meixner–Pollaczek Polynomials and Their ZerosGevrey Asymptotics and Stieltjes Transforms of Algebraically Decaying FunctionsExponential Asymptotics of the Mittag–Leffler FunctionOn the Ackerberg–O'Malley ResonanceAsymptotic Expansions for Second-Order Linear Difference Equations with a Turning PointOn a Two-Point Boundary-Value Problem with Spurious SolutionsShooting Method for Nonlinear Singularly Perturbed Boundary-Value ProblemsVolume 3:Asymptotic Expansion of the Krawtchouk Polynomials and Their ZerosOn a Uniform Treatment of Darboux's MethodLinear Difference Equations with Transition PointsUniform Asymptotics for Jacobi Polynomials with Varying Large Negative Parameters — A Riemann–Hilbert ApproachUniform Asymptotics of the Stieltjes–Wigert Polynomials via the Riemann–Hilbert ApproachA Singularly Perturbed Boundary-Value Problem Arising in Phase TransitionsOn the Number of Solutions to Carrier's ProblemAsymptotic Expansions for Riemann–Hilbert ProblemsOn the Connection Formulas of the Third Painlevé TranscendentHyperasymptotic Expansions of the Modified Bessel Function of the Third Kind of Purely Imaginary OrderGlobal Asymptotics for Polynomials Orthogonal with Exponential Quartic WeightThe Riemann–Hilbert Approach to Global Asymptotics of Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials with Infinite NodesGlobal Asymptotics of the Meixner PolynomialsAsymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials via Recurrence RelationsUniform Asymptotic Expansions for the Discrete Chebyshev PolynomialsGlobal Asymptotics of the Hahn PolynomialsGlobal Asymptotics of Stieltjes–Wigert Polynomials Readership: Undergraduates, gradudates and researchers in the areas of asymptotic approximations of integrals, singular perturbation theory, difference equations and Riemann–Hilbert approach. Key Features:This book provides a broader viewpoint of asymptoticsIt contains about half of the papers that Roderick Wong has written on asymptoticsIt demonstrates how analysis is used to make some formal results mathematically rigorousThis collection presents the scientific achievements of the authorKeywords:Asymptotic Analysis;Perturbation Method;Special Functions;Orthogonal Polynomials;Integral Transforms;Integral Equations;Ordinary Differential Equations;Difference Equations;Riemann–Hilbert Problem

Although the Fields Medal does not have the same public recognition as the Nobel Prizes, they share a similar intellectual standing. It is restricted to one field — that of mathematics — and an age limit of 40 has become an accepted tradition. Mathematics has in the main been interpreted as pure mathematics, and this is not so unreasonable since major contributions in some applied areas can be (and have been) recognized with Nobel Prizes.A list of Fields Medallists and their contributions provides a bird's-eye view of mathematics over the past 60 years. It highlights the areas in which, at various times, greatest progress has been made. This volume does not pretend to be comprehensive, nor is it a historical document. On the other hand, it presents contributions from Fields Medallists and so provides a highly interesting and varied picture.The second edition of Fields Medallists' Lectures features additional contributions from the following Medallists: Kunihiko Kodaira (1954), Richard E Borcherds (1998), William T Gowers (1998), Maxim Kontsevich (1998), Curtis T McMullen (1998) and Vladimir Voevodsky (2002).

Although the Fields Medal does not have the same public recognition as the Nobel Prizes, they share a similar intellectual standing. It is restricted to the field of mathematics and an age limit of 40 has become an accepted tradition. This volume presents contributions from Fields Medallists.

Walter Gautschi has written extensively on topics ranging from special functions, quadrature and orthogonal polynomials to difference and differential equations, software implementations, and the history of mathematics. He is world renowned for his pioneering work in numerical analysis and constructive orthogonal polynomials, including a definitive textbook in the former, and a monograph in the latter area. This three-volume set, Walter Gautschi: Selected Works with Commentaries, is a compilation of Gautschi’s most influential papers and includes commentaries by leading experts. The work begins with a detailed biographical section and ends with a section commemorating Walter’s prematurely deceased twin brother. This title will appeal to graduate students and researchers in numerical analysis, as well as to historians of science. Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 1 Numerical Conditioning Special Functions Interpolation and Approximation Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 2 Orthogonal Polynomials on the Real Line Orthogonal Polynomials on the Semicircle Chebyshev Quadrature Kronrod and Other Quadratures Gauss-type Quadrature Selected Works with Commentaries, Vol. 3 Linear Difference Equations Ordinary Differential Equations Software History and Biography Miscellanea Works of Werner Gautschi