African Americans in Mathematics

Part I. Invited Research Talks: Chain decomposition theorems for ordered sets and other musings by J. D. Farley Unimodality and the independent set numbers of matroids by C. R. Mahoney On achieving channels in a bipolar game by C. Clark Discrete approximation of invariant measures for multidimensional maps by W. M. Miller Some numerical methods for a maximum entropy problem by N. Whitaker Hydrodynamic stability, differential operators and spectral theory by I. H. Herron The role of Selberg's trace formula in the computation of Casimir energy for certain Clifford-Klein space-times by F. L. Williams Some dynamics on the irrationals by S. W. Williams Part II. Poster Presentations: Finding elliptic curves defined over $Q$ of high rank by G. Campbell Symplectic matrix structure in numerical integration by M. Keeve A numerical algorithm for the computation of invariant circles by K. Edoh Classification of nilpotent orbits in symmetric spaces by A. G. Noel Evaluating texture measures for low-level features in color images of human skin by K. E. Needham Lattice paths and RNA secondary structures by A. Nkwanta Nuprl as a concurrent interactive theorem prover by R. Moten Part III. Historical Articles: Yesterday, today and tomorrow by L. Lorch The challenge of diversity by E. Z. Falconer What next? A meta-history of black mathematicians by P. C. Kenschaft A personal history of the origins of the National Association of Mathematicians' "Presentations by Recipients of Recent Ph.D.'s" by D. M. Hill Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr.: The man and his works by N. Agwu and A. Nkwanta.