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11: 19.35 Other Applications
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§19.35(ii) Physical
►Elliptic integrals appear in lattice models of critical phenomena (Guttmann and Prellberg (1993)); theories of layered materials (Parkinson (1969)); fluid dynamics (Kida (1981)); string theory (Arutyunov and Staudacher (2004)); astrophysics (Dexter and Agol (2009)). …12: Mourad E. H. Ismail
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►Ismail has published numerous papers on special functions, orthogonal polynomials, approximation theory, combinatorics, asymptotics, and related topics.
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► Suslov), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001; Symbolic Computation, Number Theory, Special Functions, Physics and Combinatorics (with F.
… Garvan), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001; and Theory and Applications of Special Functions: A volume dedicated to Mizan Rahman (with E.
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►Ismail serves on several editorial boards including the Cambridge University Press book series Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, and on the editorial boards of 9 journals including Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Integrable Systems and Special Functions Editor); Constructive
Approximation; Journal of Approximation Theory; and Integral Transforms
and Special Functions.
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13: 11.12 Physical Applications
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►Applications of Struve functions occur in water-wave and surface-wave problems (Hirata (1975) and Ahmadi and Widnall (1985)), unsteady aerodynamics (Shaw (1985) and Wehausen and Laitone (1960)), distribution of fluid pressure over a vibrating disk (McLachlan (1934)), resistive MHD instability theory (Paris and Sy (1983)), and optical diffraction (Levine and Schwinger (1948)).
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14: 25.17 Physical Applications
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►See Armitage (1989), Berry and Keating (1998, 1999), Keating (1993, 1999), and Sarnak (1999).
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►Quantum field theory often encounters formally divergent sums that need to be evaluated by a process of regularization: for example, the energy of the electromagnetic vacuum in a confined space (Casimir–Polder effect).
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15: David M. Bressoud
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►Bressoud has published numerous papers in number theory, combinatorics, and special functions.
… 227, in 1980, Factorization and Primality Testing, published by Springer-Verlag in 1989, Second Year Calculus from Celestial Mechanics to Special
Relativity, published by Springer-Verlag in 1992, A Radical
Approach to Real Analysis, published by the Mathematical Association of America in 1994, with a second edition in 2007, Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture, published by the Mathematical Association of America and Cambridge University Press in 1999, A Course in Computational Number Theory (with S.
Wagon), published by Key College Press in 2000, and A Radical Approach to Lebesgue’s
Theory of Integration, published by the Mathematical Association of America and Cambridge University Press in 2007.
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16: Brian D. Sleeman
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►Sleeman published numerous papers in applied analysis, multiparameter spectral theory, direct and inverse scattering theory, and mathematical medicine.
He is author of the book Multiparameter spectral theory in Hilbert space, published by Pitman in 1978, and coauthor (with D.
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17: 20.12 Mathematical Applications
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§20.12(i) Number Theory
… ►This ability to uniformize multiply-connected spaces (manifolds), or multi-sheeted functions of a complex variable (Riemann (1899), Rauch and Lebowitz (1973), Siegel (1988)) has led to applications in string theory (Green et al. (1988a, b), Krichever and Novikov (1989)), and also in statistical mechanics (Baxter (1982)). …18: 8.23 Statistical Applications
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►In queueing theory the Erlang loss function is used, which can be expressed in terms of the reciprocal of ; see Jagerman (1974) and Cooper (1981, pp. 80, 316–319).
19: Ingram Olkin
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►Olkin’s research covered a broad range of areas, including multivariate analysis, reliability theory, matrix theory, statistical models in the social and behavioral sciences, life distributions, and meta-analysis.
His well-known books in the statistics community include Theory
of Majorization and its Applications (with A.
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