Menahem Max Schiffer Selected Papers Volume 2 [Hardcover]

This two volume set presents over 50 of the most groundbreaking contributions of Menahem M Schiffer. All of the reprints of Schiffers works herein have extensive annotation and invited commentaries, giving new clarity and insight into the?impact and legacy of Schiffer's work. A complete bibliography and brief biography make this a rounded and invaluable reference.

Menahem Max Schiffer, a mathematician of many interests, produced a body of work including topics on geometric function theory, Riemann surfaces, and partial differential equations, with a focus on applications and mathematical physics. Perhaps his best known work is that in the calculus of variations, especially extremal problems, which find application in many scientific areas.

This two volume set presents over 50 of the most groundbreaking contributions of this beloved mathematician. All of the reprints of Schiffers works herein have extensive annotation and invited commentaries, giving new clarity and insight into the impact and legacy of Schiffer's works. A complete bibliography and brief biography make this a rounded and invaluable reference.

Part 4: Reprints.- The Fredholm eigen values of plane domains.- Fredholm eigen values of multiply-connected domains.- Fredholm eigenvalues and conformal mapping.- Fredholm eigenvalues and Grunsky matrices.- Commentary by Reiner K?uhnau.- (with G. P?olya) Sur la repr'esentation conforme de lext?erieur dune courbe ferm?ee convexe.- Commentary by Peter Duren.- Extremum problems and variational methods in conformal mapping.- Commentary by Peter Duren.- (with Z. Charzy?nski) A new proof of the Bieberbach conjlCD