Guide to the M. M. Schiffer Papers
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2002
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Overview
Call Number: SC0654
Creator:
Schiffer, M. M.
Title: M. M. Schiffer Papers
Dates: 1953-1979
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear feet
Summary: Book chapter, articles, lectures, and some correspondence dating from Schiffer's tenure at Stanford University.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
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Transfer from Mathematics Library, 2002
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M.M. Schiffer Papers (SC0654). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biography
M. M. Schiffer was considered an authority on complex variables and conformal mapping; his special province was the application
of these fields to mathematical physics, particularly to hydrodynamics. A native of Berlin, Schiffer earned his undergraduate
degree at Friedrich-Wilhelm University in 1930 and pursued his graduate work at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, earning
his Ph.D. in 1938. He taught there until 1946, when he moved to the United States and subsequently taught at Harvard and Princeton.
He joined the Stanford faculty in 1952, serving as executive head of the Mathematics Department from 1954 to 1959. In 1967
Schiffer was appointed to the Robert Grimmett Professorship of Mathematics, a position he held until his retirement in 1977.
While at Stanford he was involved in the School Mathematics Study Group and co-authored many technical reports for the Applied
Mathematics and Statistics Laboratory. He died in 1997.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
These papers date from his tenure at Stanford University and consist largely of manuscripts and typescripts of book chapters,
articles, and lectures. Topics include conformal mapping, relativity, differential equations, functions of complex variables,
and mathematical physics. Other items include research notes and letters from Robert W. Fuller, Nicolai Minorsky, and J. G.
Van der Corput.
Access Terms
Corput, J. G. van der (Johannes Gualtherus), b. 1890.
Fuller, Robert W.
Minorsky, Nicolai, 1885-
Conformal mapping.
Functions of complex variables.
General relativity (Physics)--Mathematics.
Mathematics--Scientific applications.
Mathematics.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Chapter 3 Tensor analysis
Box 1, Folder 2
Chapter 4 Tensors in physics
Box 1, Folder 3
Chapter 5 The gravitational field equations in free space
Box 1, Folder 4
Chapter 6 The Schwarzschild solution and its consequences: experimental tests of general relativity
Box 1, Folder 6
Chapter 11 Cosmology and astronomy
Box 1, Folder 7
Chapter [11] Cosmology and astronomy
Box 1, Folder 8
Chapter 12 Cosmological models
Box 1, Folder 9
Chapter [12] Cosmological models
Box 1, Folder 10
Chapter 13 Electromagnetism and general relativity
Box 1, Folder 11
Bibliographies for the chapters
Box 1, Folder 12
Table of contents; part of chapter 13
Box 1, Folder 13
Assorted additions to chapters
Box 1, Folder 14
Chapter 1 Phase plane; singular points
(1956)
Box 1, Folder 15
Chapter 2 Conservative systems
Box 1, Folder 16
Chapter 3 Limit cycles of Poincare
Box 1, Folder 17
Chapter 4 Geometric analysis of periodic solutions
Box 1, Folder 18
Chapter 5 Stability (variational equations; characteristic exponents)
Box 1, Folder 19
Chapter 6 Stability (Liapounov)
Box 1, Folder 20
Chapter 7 Theory of bifurcations
Box 2, Folder 1
Chapter 8 Cylindrical and toroidal phase spaces
Box 2, Folder 2
Chapter 9 Methods of solutions by series
Box 2, Folder 3
Chapter 10 Periodic solutions
Box 2, Folder 4
Chapter 11 Determination of characteristic exponents
Box 2, Folder 5
Chapter 12 Asymptotic methods
Box 2, Folder 6
Chapter 13 Asymptotic methods of Kryloff - Bogolinboff
Box 2, Folder 7
Chapter 14 Stroboscopic method
Box 2, Folder 8
Applications of variational methods in the theory of conformal mapping - tss and correspondence
1955-56
Box 2, Folder 9
Applications of variational methods in the theory of conformal mapping - mss
Box 2, Folder 10
Calculus - mss, not in Schiffer's hand
Box 2, Folder 11
Complex analysis I. Stanford - mss
1979
Box 2, Folder 12
Conformal mapping. Stanford (1 of 3) - mss
1960
Box 2, Folder 13
Conformal mapping. Stanford (2 of 3) - mss
1960
Box 2, Folder 14
Conformal mapping. Stanford (3 of 3) - mss
1960
Box 3, Folder 1
Differentiable and sense preserving mappings - mss
Box 3, Folder 2
Differential and integral calculus. Stanford - mss
1955
Box 3, Folder 3
External problems on doubly connected domains - mss
Box 3, Folder 4
Fredholm Eigen Values of Plane Domains, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 7, No. 2,
1957
Box 3, Folder 5
Fredholm Eigenvalues and conformal mapping of multiply connected domains (Schiffer and G. Springer) - tss
Box 3, Folder 6
Function of a complex variable I. Stanford - mss
1960
Box 3, Folder 7
Function of a complex variable. Stanford (1 of 2) - mss
1964
Box 3, Folder 8
Function of a complex variable. Stanford (2 of 2) - mss
1964
Box 3, Folder 9
Galois theory. Stanford Spring Quarter [possibly a lecture] - mss
1954
Box 3, Folder 10
Introduction to general relativity. Stanford (1 of 2) - mss
1979
Box 3, Folder 11
Introduction to general relativity. Stanford (2 of 2) - mss
1979
Box 3, Folder 12
Mathematical methods of physics. Stanford - mss
1963
Box 4, Folder 1
Miscellaneous manuscripts: period matrix; section 2 distortion theorems - mss
Box 4, Folder 2
On the fourth coefficient of bounded univalent functions (Schiffer and O. Tammi) - mss, not in Schiffer's hand
Box 4, Folder 3
Ordinary differential equations. Stanford - mss
1953
Box 4, Folder 4
Partial Differential Equations of the elliptic type - tss
Box 4, Folder 5
Partial Differential Equations of the elliptic type - tss
Box 4, Folder 6
Perspectives in mathematics. Stanford - mss
1972
Box 4, Folder 7
QC mappings, chapters on - tss
Box 4, Folder 8
Some consequences of the Riemann-Roch theorem - mss
Box 4, Folder 9
Theory of analytic functions. Stanford - mss
1975
Box 4, Folder 10
Theory of the second (?) variation - mss
Box 4, Folder 11
Variation of domain functionals. Pasadena, - mss
1953
Box 5, Folder 2
Notes: A non-local estimate for A5
Box 5, Folder 3
Notes and reprint,
The Local Maximum Theorem for the Coefficients of Univalent Functions (P. R. Garabedian and Schiffer), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1967
Box 5, Folder 4
Notes and reprints, Pederson, Roger N.
On Unitary Properties of Grunsky's Matrix, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Vol. 29, No. 5, 1968;
On the Bieberbach Conjecture for Even n (Garabedian, Ross & Schiffer), Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics, Nov. 14, No. 6, 1965
Correspondence and Miscellaneous
Box 5, Folder 9
Fuller, Robert W. - letter,
1963
Box 5, Folder 10
Minorsky, Nicolai - correspondence and text,
1955
Box 5, Folder 11
Minorsky, Nicolai - correspondence,
1958
Box 5, Folder 12
Van der Corput, J. G. - letter,
1958
Box 5, Folder 13
Schiffer, Dinah - "You" [personal information on Schiffer as a child]
