African Americans in Mathematics

This volume contains contains research and expository papers by African-American mathematicians on issues related to their involvement in the mathematical sciences. Little is known, taught, or written about African-American mathematicians. Information is lacking on their past and present contributions and on the qualitive nature of their existence in and distribution throughout mathematics. This lack of information leads to a number of questions that have to date remainedunanswered. This volume provides details and pointers to help answer some of these questions.

Invited Research Talks: Chain decomposition theorems for ordered sets and other musings
Unimodality and the independent set numbers of matroids
On achieving channels in a bipolar game
Discrete approximation of invariant measures for multidimensional maps
Some numerical methods for a maximum entropy problem
Hydrodynamic stability, differential operators and spectral theory
The role of Selberg's trace formula in the computation of Casimir energy for certain Clifford-Klein space-times
Some dynamics on the irrationals
Poster Presentations: Finding elliptic curves defined over $Q$ of high rank
Symplectic matrix structure in numerical integration
A numerical algorithm for the computation of invariant circles
Classification of nilpotent orbits in symmetric spaces
Evaluating texture measures for low-level features in color images of human skin
Lattice paths and RNA secondary structures
Nuprl as a concurrent interactive theorem prover
Historical Articles: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
The challenge of diversity
What next? A meta-history of black mathematicians
A personal history of the origins of the National Association of Mathematicians' "Presentations by Recipients of Recent Ph.D.'s"
Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins: The man and his works
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