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Acknowledgment from
Index to Mathematical Problems 1975-1979
by Stanley Rabinowitz and Mark Bowron
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The effort of many people went into
producing this second volume in the Indexes to Mathematical
Problems series. Their help is greatly appreciated. Data
entry and proofreading were done by Selma Burrows,
Mark Buxbaum, Michael Clarke,
Anne R. Costa, Joan Duprey, Kathi Duprey,
Cheryl Hoffman, Helen Metcalf,
Carol Anderson Peters, Stanley Rabinowitz,
Dennis Spellman, and Mindy Swartz. The monumental task
of producing a book like this could not have been completed
without their help.
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I was saddened by the passing of my
friend and advisor Leroy F. Meyers in 1995. He played an
important role in the success of these indexes, offering
many detailed comments (especially with respect to the
proper spelling of people's names) and providing English
translations of problems originally published in Dutch. He
is missed by all of us at MathPro Press.
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I want to thank everyone else who
performed translations into English, including
George Berzsenyi, Roel Lipsch, Susan Oliver, Dennis Spellman, and
Jordan Tabov. The editorial board (George Berzsenyi,
Clark Kimberling, Murray S. Klamkin, Leroy F. Meyers, and
Jordan Tabov) did an exceptional job in reviewing all of the
material from my many mailings. They offered good advice and
were instrumental in the shaping of this index. Many thanks
to Richard T. Bumby for writing the foreword to this volume,
and to Murray Klamkin for his continuing encouragement.
Problems were classified by Mark Bowron, Joan Duprey,
Stanley Rabinowitz, and Dennis Spellman. Special thanks to
Mark Bowron for adding the cross-referencing scheme to the
keyword index, to Mark Buxbaum for valuable help with that
index, and to Herb Jacobs for his help in many phases of the
book production. The cover was designed and composed by
Kathi Duprey at Ad Infinitum Graphics.
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This index gives credit to the many
authors of the problems indexed herein and also carefully
cites the sources (names of the journals and page numbers)
in which these problems were originally posed. Consult the
Problem Chronology (page 299) to determine the original
source for any problem listed herein. Thanks to all the
various publishing organizations for providing the
mathemtaical community with such a rich variety of problem
columns, and for giving us the permission to reprint
problems from these sources.
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I am indebted to Donald Knuth for
designing the TeX system for typesetting technical text
which was used to typeset the mathematical portions of this
book, and to Michael Spivak, who designed the MathTime
family of fonts.
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I wish to thank the many people who
supplied details about unsolved problems and papers that
reference problems:
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Julia Abrahams, Ed Barbeau,
Petter Bjørstad, F. S. Cater, Peter Giblin,
Jacob E. Goodman, Doug Hensley, James Hirschfeld,
Melvin Hochster, David M. Jackson, Kenneth R. Kellum,
Dan J. Kleitman, Robert Leslie, John S. Lew, Colin L. Mallows,
Armel Mercier, Eric Milner, Thomas E. Moore,
Harry Nelson, Louis Nirenberg, Joseph O'Rourke, Carl Pomerance,
James Propp, David Singmaster, Dan Sokolowsky,
Lloyd N. Trefethen, Peter Ungar, and J. Ernest Wilkins.
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The following people helped me in
locating journals, contests, pseudonyms, and bibliographic
references:
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Bength Ahlin, Seung-Jin Bang,
Leon Bankoff, Ed Barbeau, Dieter Bennewitz,
George Berzsenyi, Mark Bowron, Steven Conrad, Curtis Cooper,
Michel Criton, Clayton Dodge, Richard Gibbs,
Heiko Harborth, Mark Hesse, Paul Jainta, George P. Jelliss,
Erwin Just, Robert Kennedy, Murray Klamkin,
Joe Konhauser, Hans Lausch, Peter Messer, Leroy Meyers,
Bill Sands, Mark Saul, Joseph V. Saverino,
Norman Schaumberger, Jordan Tabov, Peter Taylor, L. J. Upton,
and Stan Wagon.
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To the many people who offered
encouragement and miscellaneous help, I salute
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Gary Barna, Cathy Bence, George
and Roberta Berry, Lisa Brennan, Mark Buxbaum, Anton and
Peggy Chernoff, Anne and Peter Costa, Bill and
Tricia Fisher, Peter Gilbert, Tim and Cheryl Hoffman,
Herb Jacobs, Clark Kimberling, Murray Klamkin, Joe Konhauser,
Hank Lieberman, Erwin Lutwak, Walter Mientka,
Peter O'Halloran, Bill Perkins, Eric and Carol Peters, Jack and
Fay Rabinowitz, Jim and Sharon Ravan, Leanne Robertson,
Josh Rosen, Léo Sauvé, Dave Scheifler,
Leo Schneider, Larry Somer, Rob and Marty Spence, Judy Swank,
Rick Swift, Craig Thomas, and Marijke van Gans.
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Finally, I wish to thank all the
problemists out there who have enriched my life and the
lives of many others by contributing such fine problems to
the mathematical literature. I hope they will understand the
few cases where I have had to edit their creations in order
to remove extraneous matter and fit the space constraints of
this index. And, of course, a great thank you must go to all
those problem column editors who endure a thankless task but
provide an invaluable service to the mathematics
community.
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- Stan -
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