most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-22T18:51:06Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/54376 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/54376/who-is-this-guy-z-a-melzak-wrote-companion-to-concrete-mathematics Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES 2011-02-05T00:12:27Z 2011-02-07T03:57:40Z

<p><em>Author</em> : Z.A. Melzak<br> <em>Book Title</em> : Companion to Concrete Mathematics.<br> <em>Publication</em> : Dover renewed 2004 2 volumes in one. Copyright 1972/1976. </p> <p>I found this book extremely nice.<br> To whet your appetite he talks about reification as well as some plain and less plain way to accelerate series convergence. In a few words it is a rare blend of concreteness and conceptualization. It smells a bit like Concrete Mathematics (by Knuth and co..) but the only information I found was an an depth review by Klamkin (not entirely positive though). </p> <p>QUESTION : I would like to find connections : information about the author, and for those who appreciate this book or heard loadably about it: what others books/works are in the same vein ? </p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/54376/who-is-this-guy-z-a-melzak-wrote-companion-to-concrete-mathematics/54378#54378 David Eppstein 2011-02-05T00:52:55Z 2011-02-05T00:58:20Z

<p>According to <a href="http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=17764" rel="nofollow">the Mathematics Genealogy Project</a>, Zdzislaw Alexander Melzak did his graduate studies at MIT and became a professor at UBC. I'm not sure whether his name might have actually been spelled Zozislaw, though (I guess someone Polish would know which is correct). The UBC Library has online <a href="http://sproat.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ubcnew&amp;CISOPTR=3385&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=1" rel="nofollow">a photo of him</a> from 1966.</p>