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Stanley Farlow
Born1937 (1937)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOregon State University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMaine University
Doctoral advisorRonald Bernard Guenther

Stanley Jerome Farlow (born 1937) is an American mathematician specializing in differential equations. For many years he has been a professor at the University of Maine.

Life

Farlow earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Iowa.[1] He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at Oregon State University in 1967. His doctoral supervisor was Ronald Bernard Guenther, and his doctoral dissertation was on Existence Theorems for Periodic Solutions of Parabolic Partial Differential Equations.[2]

He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Maine.[1]

Books

Farlow is the author of several books in mathematics, including

  • Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (Wiley, 1982; Russian translation, Moscow: Mir, 1985; Dover, 1993)[3]
  • Finite Mathematics and Its Applications (with Gary M. Haggard, Random House, 1988; 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 1994)
  • Introduction to Calculus with Applications (with Gary M. Haggard, McGraw Hill, 1990)
  • An Introduction to Differential Equations and Their Applications (McGraw Hill, 1994; Dover, 2006)
  • Paradoxes in Mathematics (Dover, 2014)[4]

He is also the editor of:

  • Self-Organizing Methods in Modeling: GMDH Type Algorithms (Marcel Dekker, 1984)

References

  1. ^ a b "Home page". University of Maine Mathematics Department. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  2. ^ Stanley Farlow at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Reviews of Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers:
  4. ^ Reviews of Paradoxes in Mathematics: