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.

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

Life

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Farlow earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Iowa State University and a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Iowa.[1] From 1962 to 1968 he was a lieutenant commander in the PHS, completing 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 Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Maine.[1]

Books

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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]
  • Applied Mathematics for Management, Life Science, and Social Science (with Gary M. Haggard, Random House, 1988)
  • 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)
  • Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (with James E. Hall, Jean Marie Mc Dill, and Beverly H. West, Prentice Hall, 2002)
  • Paradoxes in Mathematics (Dover, 2014)[4]
  • Advanced Mathematics: A Transitional Reference (Wiley, 2020)

He is also the editor of:

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

References

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  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:
    • Advanced Mathematics: A Transitional Reference (Wiley, 2020)
    • Becker, Glenn (October 2014), MAA Reviews
    • Cobreros, Pablo, MR3243572