Murray R. Spiegel

Murray R. Spiegel (* 1923 in Brooklyn ; † 1991 ) was an American applied mathematician and author of textbooks in the book series Schaum's Outlines .

Life

Spiegel attended New Utrecht High School and Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1943. He was then a teaching fellow at Harvard University until 1945 and a consultant at Monsanto in the summer of 1946 . He continued his studies at Cornell University with a master's degree in physics in 1947 and a doctorate in mathematics in 1949 with Mark Kac (dissertation: On the Random Vibrations of Harmonically Bound Particles in a Viscous Medium ), where he was a teaching fellow from 1946 to 1949 was. In 1949 he became an assistant professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy (New York) . He was also a consultant in geophysics at Beers & Heroy in 1950 and aerodynamics consultant at the Wright Air Development Center of the Air Force from 1950 to 1954. In 1954 he became associate professor and 1957 professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was on their new campus in Hartford (Connecticut) from 1955 (Hartford Graduate Center) and headed the mathematics faculty there.

He was also at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Columbia University.

Fonts

Usually only the dates of the first publication are given, but the books are continuously edited and reissued at Schaum's Outline.

• Schaum's Outline of College Algebra, 1956
• Schaum's Outline of College Physics, McGraw Hill Education, 12th edition 2017 (edited by Eugene Hecht )
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of statistics 1961, Archives
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of advanced calculus 1963, 1974, Archive
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of complex variables: with an introduction to conformal mapping and its applications, 1964 (German edition 1977)
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of Laplace transforms 1965 (German edition 1977)
• Schaum's Outline: Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, McGraw-Hill 1968, Archive , (German edition: Handbuch der Mathematik, Formulas und Tables 1979)
• Schaum's Outline: Introduction to Higher Mathematics: Theory and Application, McGraw Hill 1977
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of vector analysis and an introduction to tensor analysis 1959 (German edition 1977)
• Schaum's Outline of Real Variables: Lebesgue measure and integration with applications to Fourier series, 1969, Archive
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of advanced mathematics for engineers and scientists 1971 (German edition 1979)
• Schaum's Outline: Theory and problems of statistics in SI units, McGraw-Hill 1972 (German edition 1976, 1985 by McGraw-Hill and mitp Verlag 2003)
• Schaum's Outline: Probability and Statistics, McGraw-Hill 1975
• Schaum's Outline of Finite Differences and Difference Equations, 1971 (German edition 1982)
• Schaum's Outline of the theory and problems of Fourier Analysis, with Applications to Boundary-Value Problems, 1974 (German edition McGraw Hill, Düsseldorf 1976)
• Schaum's outline of theory and problems of theoretical mechanics: with an introduction to Lagrange's equations and Hamiltonian theory 1967, Archive , (German edition 1976)
• Applied Differential Equations, Prentice-Hall, 1963, 3rd edition 1981

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In several authority files, his middle name is given as “Ralph”. In a source "Rose": Cornell Math Doctorates ( Memento from March 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Murray R. Spiegel in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
3. ↑ Cornell Math Doctorates ( Memento from March 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Biographical information in his books at Schaum's Outline. There positions in Harvard, Columbia, Rensselaer and Oak Ridge are given, as well as consulting activities as mathematicians for companies. Biographical information from McGraw Hill publisher ( memento of March 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).