Stanley Jerome Farlow (born 1937) is an American

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specializing in

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s. For many years he has been a professor at the

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Life

Farlow earned a bachelor's degree in physics at

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and a master's degree in mathematics at the

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. From 1962 to 1968 he was a lieutenant commander in the PHS, completing his

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in mathematics at

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in 1967. His doctoral supervisor was Ronald Bernard Guenther, and his doctoral dissertation was on ''Existence Theorems for Periodic Solutions of Parabolic Partial Differential Equations''. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the

Books

Farlow is the author of several books in mathematics, including *''Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers'' (Wiley, 1982; Russian translation, Moscow: Mir, 1985; Dover, 1993) *Applied Mathematics for Management, Life Science, and Social Science (with Gary M. Haggard, Random House, 1988) *''Finite Mathematics and Its Applications'' (with Gary M. Haggard, Random House, 1988; 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 1994) *''Introduction to Calculus with Applications'' (with Gary M. Haggard, McGraw Hill, 1990) *''An Introduction to Differential Equations and Their Applications'' (McGraw Hill, 1994; Dover, 2006) *Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (with James E. Hall, Jean Marie Mc Dill, and Beverly H. West, Prentice Hall, 2002) *''Paradoxes in Mathematics'' (Dover, 2014)Reviews of ''Paradoxes in Mathematics'': *''Advanced Mathematics: A Transitional Reference'' (Wiley, 2020) *Becker, Glenn (October 2014)
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*Cobreros, Pablo, *Advanced Mathematics: A Transitional Reference (Wiley, 2020) He is also the editor of: *''Self-Organizing Methods in Modeling: GMDH Type Algorithms'' (Marcel Dekker, 1984)

References

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