Michael Spivak
Michael David Spivak (born 1940 in Queens, New York) is a mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. He is the author of the five-volume A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of John Milnor in 1964.[1]
His book Calculus takes a very rigorous and theoretical approach to introductory calculus[according to whom?]. It is used in calculus courses, particularly those with a pure mathematics emphasis, at many universities[citation needed].
Spivak has also written The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting With the AMS-TeX Macro Package and The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus. The famous book Morse Theory, by John Milnor, was based on lecture notes by Spivak and Robert Wells[citation needed]. Spivak's book Calculus on Manifolds is also rather infamous as being one of the most difficult undergraduate mathematics textbooks[according to whom?].
Spivak has lectured on elementary physics.[2] His most recent book, Physics for Mathematicians: Mechanics I, which contains the material that these lectures stemmed from and more, was published on December 6, 2010.[3]
In each of his books Spivak has hidden references to yellow pigs, an idea he apparently came up with at a bar while drinking with David C. Kelly[citation needed].
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Bibliography [edit]
- Calculus on Manifolds: A Modern Approach to Classical Theorems of Advanced Calculus, (1965)
- Calculus, (1967, 4th ed. 2008)
- A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry,[4][5](1979, 3rd ed. 1999)
- The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX Macro package, (1990)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus, (1995)
- Physics for Mathematicians: Mechanics I, (2010)
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References [edit]
- ^ cite http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=15162
- ^ Videos of Spivak's 2004 Pathway Lectures at Keio University and the text for Elementary mechanics from a mathematician's viewpoint.
- ^ "Physics for Mathematicians, Mechanics I". Amazon.com. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
- ^ Guillemin, Victor (1973). "Review: A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry, Vols. 1 & 2, by M. Spivak". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (2): 303–306.
- ^ Alexander, Stephanie (1978). "Review: A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry, Vols. 3, 4, & 5, by M. Spivak". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1): 27–32. Text "Soc." ignored (help)
External links [edit]
- Publish or Perish, Inc., company owned by Spivak
- 17 (Seventeen) and Yellow Pigs
- Michael Spivak @ Everything2.com
- Michael Spivak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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