The tragic loss caused by the premature death of Abraham Robinson brought about a deeply felt desire by his close friends, colleagues, and pupils to commemorate his exceptional gifts and personality. An appropriate way to accomplish this appeared to be the selection and editing of his writings on applied mathematics, mathematics, mathematical logic, philosophy, and nonstandard analysis, and the publication of these papers in these volumes.
This edition presents only an incomplete picture of Robinson’s work and influence on mathematics and mathematical logic. It is impossible to do full justice to his many lectures, his philosophical and expository articles, and his many contributions to the work of his pupils. We do feel, however, that the present selection, together with his many important books and monographs, will show the mark his work has left on the development of mathematics and mathematical logic in this century.
Author(s): H.J.Keisler, S.Körner, W.A.J.Luxemburg, A.D.Young (eds)
Publisher: North-Holland
Year: 1979
Language: English
Commentary: Scanned by Envoy
Pages: 270
City: Amsterdam
Abraham Robinson: Selected papers. Volume 3. Aeronautics ......Page 1
Photo: Abraham Robinson, sergeant in the Free French forces (1941) ......Page 3
Editors' Note ......Page 6
Table of contents ......Page 8
Facsimile of first MS page of University of London thesis ......Page 9
Biography of Abraham Robinson (George B. Seligman) ......Page 10
Introduction (A. D. Young) ......Page 30
Shock Transmission in Beams ......Page 36
The Wave Drag of Diamond-shaped Aerofoils at Zero Incidence ......Page 104
Aerofoil Theory of a Flat Delta Wing at Supersonic Speeds ......Page 110
Bound and Trailing Vortices in the Linearised Theory of Supersonic Flow, and the Downwash in the Wake of a Delta Wing (with J. H. Hunter-Tod) ......Page 131
On Some Problems of Unsteady Supersonic Aerofoil Theory ......Page 145
On Source and Vortex Distributions in the Linearized Theory of Steady Supersonic Flow ......Page 159
The Aerodynamic Derivatives with respect to Sideslip for a Delta Wing with Small Dihedral at Zero Incidence at Supersonic Speeds (with J. H. Hunter-Tod) ......Page 184
Wave Reflexion near a Wall ......Page 198
Non-Uniform Supersonic Flow ......Page 216
On Some Problems of Unsteady Aerofoil Theory ......Page 229
On the Motion of Small Particles in a Potential Field of Flow ......Page 245
Wave Propagation in a Heterogeneous Elastic Medium ......Page 261
Transient Stresses in Beams of Variable Characteristics ......Page 274
On Flexural Wave Propagation in Nonhomogeneous Elastic Plates (with A. E. Hurd) ......Page 286
Bibliography ......Page 296
Doctoral Students of Abraham Robinson ......Page 303
