Partial Differential and Difference Equations: Lectures Given By Dr. I.J. Schoenberg, et al. at National Bureau of Standards, Los Angeles, California, Summer Session 1951

Los Angeles: U.S. National Bureau of Standards, 1951. 186 pp. 27 x 20.5 cm. Mimeographed leaves (text on rectos only) staplebound in two volumes. Uneven toning to cover, with some nicking and light chipping to extremities. Uneven toning to top leaf of second volume (86-186 pp.). Final leaf of second volume has come loose from the staples. This leaf has nicking to the extremities, with two 15 mm and 24 mm closed tears to spine side of leaf. Toning to edges of text block. Interiors are clean and unmarked. Bindings sound aside from the loose leaf of the second volume. Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, born in 1903, was a Jewish-Romanian mathematician who studied at the Universities of Berlin and Gottingen in the 1920s. He was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1930, which allowed him to visit the University of Chicago, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was appointed to the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1941, and then went on to teach at the Univeristy of Wisconsin in Madision in 1966. He is best known for having created splines. Quite scarce, WorldCat locates only two copies in holdings. Staplebound. Very Good.…