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Kenneth O. May

Mathematics

#1986

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Measure Theory

#1593

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PhD Mathematics Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth O. May was an American mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. May was a prime mover behind the International Commission on the History of Mathematics, and was the first editor of its journal Historia Mathematica. Every four years the ICHM awards the Kenneth O. May Prize for outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics.

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Kenneth O. May's Published Works

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A Set of Independent Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Simple Majority Decision (1952) (1224)
Intransitivity, Utility, and the Aggregation of Preference Patterns (1954) (439)
Abuses of citation indexing. (1967) (82)
The Aggregation Problem for a One-Industry Model (1946) (46)
Quantitative Growth of the Mathematical Literature (1966) (43)
Technological Change and Aggregation (1947) (38)
A Note on the Complete Independence of the Conditions for Simple Majority Decision (1953) (33)
Growth and Quality of the Mathematical Literature (1968) (31)
Probabilities of Certain Election Results (1948) (30)
The Origin of the Four-Color Conjecture (1965) (26)
Measure and the integral (1968) (26)
Value and Price of Production: A Note on Winternitz' Solution (1948) (25)
Bibliography and research manual of the history of mathematics (1973) (25)
The Mathematical Association of America : its first fifty years (1972) (19)
The Impossibility of a Division Algebra of Vectors in Three Dimensional Space (1966) (15)
Historiography: A Perspective for Computer Scientists (1980) (13)
What is good history and who should do it (1975) (12)
Historiographic vices II. Priority chasing (1975) (12)
Review: R. Duncan Luce, Individual choice behavior, a theoretical analysis (1960) (12)
Undergraduate research in mathematics (1962) (10)
Historiographic vices I. Logical attribution (1975) (8)
The Structure of Classical Value Theories (1949) (8)
Derivatives of Determinants and Other Multilinear Functions (1965) (6)
Theory of Probability. (1952) (5)
Elements of modern mathematics (1959) (5)
Linear Aggregation of Economic Relevations. Contributions to Economic Analysis VII (1958) (4)
Undergraduate Research: Some Conclusions (1968) (3)
Lectures on calculus (1969) (3)
History in the Mathematics Curriculum (1974) (3)
Recent Publications and Presentations (1965) (2)
Great Currents of Mathematical Thought. (1973) (2)
Teachers Should Know About Mathematics. (1972) (2)
Galileo Sequences, a Good Dangling Problem (1972) (2)
Studies in Mathematical Learning Theory. Robert R. Bush and William K. Estes, Eds. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1959. viii + 432 pp. $11.50 (1960) (2)
A Note on the Pure Theory of Production (1950) (1)
World directory of historians of mathematics (1978) (1)
Index of the American mathematical monthly : volumes 1 through 80 (1894-1973) (1977) (1)
Small Versus Large Classes (1962) (1)
Bounded Models of the Euclidean Plane (1954) (1)
An Interesting Isomorphism (1963) (1)
Continued Fractions. A. Ya. Khinchin, Translated from the third Russian edition (Moscow, 1961) by Scripta Technica. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1964. xii + 95 pp. Illus. Paper, $1.95; cloth, $5 (1964) (1)
Essay Review: Mathematics in Russia: Istoriya Matematiki v Rossii Do 1917 Goda (History of Mathematics in Russia to 1917) (1971) (1)
Mathematics: Continued Fractions . A. Ya. Khinchin, Translated from the third Russian edition (Moscow, 1961) by Scripta Technica. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1964. xii + 95 pp. Illus. Paper, $1.95; cloth, $5. (1964) (0)
What is Mathematics and How do we Teach it (1970) (0)
The Calculus of Absolute Values (1955) (0)
Errors Resulting from a Manipulative Approach to Proving the Orthogonality of Two Curves (1960) (0)
Niels Henrik Abel, Mathematician Extraordinary . Oystein Ore. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1957. 277 pp. $5.75. (1957) (0)
Problems for Solution: E831-E835 (1948) (0)
Mathematical Articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (1966) (0)
Book Review: Borderlands of Science, by Alfred Still (1951) (0)
Gauss on Number Theory: Disquisitiones Arithmeticae . Carl Friederich Gauss. Translated from the second German edition (Gottingen, 1860) by Arthur A. Clarke. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1966. 492 pp., illus. Paper, $2.95; cloth, $12.50. (1966) (0)
"Bibliography and Research Manual of history of Mathematics", K. O. May, Toronto 1973 : [recenzja] / M. Bąk. (1976) (0)
Report of the Commission on the History of Mathematics to the Division of History of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science August 1977 (1975) (0)
Discovering and Constructing Logarithm Tables and a Slide Rule by Simple Arithmetic. (1973) (0)
A Kind of Problem that Effectively Tests Familiarity with Functional Relations (1953) (0)
Some Algebraic Equations Do Not Have Exactly N Roots. (1973) (0)
Gauss on Number Theory (1966) (0)
Elementary Problems: E1915-E1924 (1966) (0)
Book Review: The Science of Chance, by Horace C. Levinson (1950) (0)
Book Reviews : Claudia Zaslavsky, Africa Counts. Boston, Prindle, Weber, & Schmidt, 1973, pp. x, 328, $ 12.50 (1975) (0)
Finding out about “modern mathematics” (1958) (0)
Reprints: Return Envelopes. (1965) (0)
A Comment on Measures of Productivity of Mathematics Departments (1965) (0)
Claudia Zaslavsky, Africa Counts. Boston, Prindle, Weber, & Schmidt, 1973, pp. x, 328, $ 12.50 (1975) (0)
Mathematics. (Book Reviews: Continued Fractions) (1964) (0)
Programed learning and mathematical education : a CEM study (1965) (0)
Book Review:Mathematics and Logic. Retrospect and Prospect Mark Kac, Stanislaw Ulam (1969) (0)
Book Review:Quelques aspects de la pensee d'un mathematicien Paul Levy (1971) (0)
Derivation of the Normal Form of the Equation of the Straight Line (1948) (0)
Mathematics: The New Mathematics Dictionary and Handbook . Robert W. Marks. Bantam Books, New York, 1964. 186 pp. 95¢. (1964) (0)
Book Review: Theory of Equations, by J. V. Uspensky (1949) (0)
Studies in Mathematical Learning Theory . Robert R. Bush and William K. Estes, Eds. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1959. viii + 432 pp. $11.50. (1960) (0)
Abuses of Citation Indexing (1967) (0)
International Commission on the History of MathematicsReport of the Commission on the History of Mathematics to the Division of History of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science August 1977 (1977) (0)

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