Biography of murray r spiegel
Murray R. Spiegel
American mathematician
Murray Ralph Spiegel () was an author of textbooks on mathematics, including titles in a collection of Schaum's Outlines.[1]
Spiegel was a native of Brooklyn and a graduate of New Utrecht High School. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Brooklyn College in He earned a master's degree in and doctorate in , both in mathematics and both at Cornell University. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard University in –, a consultant with Monsanto Chemical Company in the summer of , and a teaching fellow at Cornell University from to He was a consultant in geophysics for Beers & Heroy in , and a consultant in aerodynamics for Wright Air Development Center from to Spiegel joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in and a full professor in He was assigned to the faculty Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Hartford, CT, when that branch was organized in , where he served as chair of the mathematics department.[2] His PhD dissertation, supervised by Marc Kac,[3] was titled On the Random Vibrations of Harmonically Bound Particles in a Viscous Medium.[4]
Works
- Schaum's Outline of College Algebra (First Edition: ) [Most Recent Edition: ]
- Schaum's Outline of College Physics
- Schaum's Outline of Statistics (FE: ) [MRE: ]
- Schaum's Outline of Advanced Calculus () []
- Schaum's Outline of Complex Variables () []
- Schaum's Outline of Laplace Transforms ()
- Schaum's Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables () []
- Schaum's Outline of Vector Analysis [And An Introduction to Tensor Analysis] () []
- Schaum's Outline of Real Variables ()
- Schaum's Outline of Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists () []
- Schaum's Outline of Finite Differences and Difference Equations ()
- Schaum's Outline of Fourier Analysis with Applications to Boundary-Value Problems ()
- Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics () []
- Schaum's Outline of Theoretical Mechanics ()
- Applied Differential Equations () []