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OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Edited by Everett Pitcher and Gordon L. Walker CONTENTS MEETINGS Calendar of Meetings . 706 Program for the Meeting in Laramie, Wyoming . 707 Abstracts for the M·~eting - Pages 758-800 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS . • . • • . • . • . 731 LETTERS TO THE .EDITOR . • . • . • . • . 733 PERSONAL ITEMS .........•...••......•................•... 735 NEW AMS PUBLICATIONS . • . • . • . • . • . 737 ACTIVITIES OF OTHER ASSOCIATIONS. • . • . 739 MEMORANDA TO MEMBERS Mathematical Sciences Employment Register . 741 NEWS ITEMS AND ANNO'JNCEMENTS. • . • . 742 VISITING MATHEMATICIANS. • . • . • . • . 747 BACKLOG FOR MATHEMATICAL RESEARCH JOURNALS . • . • • . • . • . 756 ABSTRACTS OF CONTRIBUTED PAPERS. • . • . • . 757 ERRATA •..•.•...•.•.•....•..•......•..•....••.•..•....... 850 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS . • • • . • . 856 MEETINGS Calendar of Meetings NOTE: This Calendar lists all of the meetings which have been approved by the Council up to the date at which this issue of the cJVoticei) was sent to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change. This is particularly true of the meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Meet- Deadline ing Date Place for No. Abstracta• 678 October 31, 1970 Washington, D. C. Sept, 10, 1970 679 November 20-21, 1970 Athens, Georgia Oct, '6, 1970 680 November 21, 1970 Pasadena, California Oct, 6, 1970 681 November 28, 1970 Urbana, Illinois Oct, 6, 1970 682 January 21-25, 1971 Atlantic City, New Jersey Nov. 5, 1970 (77th Annual Meeting) March 26-27, 1971 Chicago, Illinois April 7-10, 1971 New York, New York April 24, 1971 Monterey, California August 30-Sep:ember 3, 1971 University Park, Pennsylvania (76th Summer Meeting) January 17-21, 1972 Las Vegas, Nevada (78th Annual Meeting) *The abstracts of papers to be presented in person at the meetings must be received in the Head quarters Offices of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before these deadlines, The dead lines also apply to news items. The next two deadlines for by-title abstracts will be September 3, 1970, and September 2 9, 1970, . OTHER EVENTS September 1-10, 1970 International Congress of Mathematicians Nice, France --~-···---· The cJI/Oiiai) of the American Mathematical Society is published by the American Mathematical Society, 321 South Main Street, P. 0. Box 6248, Providence, Rhode Island 02904 in January, February, April, June, August, October, November and December. Price per annual volume is $10.00. Price per copy $3.00. Special price for copies sold at registration desks of meetings of the Society • $1.00 per copy. Subscriptions, orders for back numbers (back issues of the last two years only are available) and inquiries sho~d be addressed to the American Mathematical Society, P. 0. Box 6248, Providence, Rhode Island 02904. Second class postage p81d at Providence, Rhode Island, and additional mailing offices. Copyright © 1970 by the American Mathematical Society Printed in the United States of America 706 The Seventy-Fifth Summer Meeting University ofWyoming Laramie, Wyoming August25-28,1970 The seventy-fifth summer meeting The first award of the Norbert of the American Mathematical Society will Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics be held at the University of Wyoming, will be made at 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Laramie, Wyoming, from Tuesday, August August 25, in the Auditorium of the Arts 25, through Friday, August 28, 1970. All and Sciences Building. There will be sessions of the meeting will be held on the numerous sessions for contributed ten campus of the University. The times listed minute papers. These are scheduled at below for events of the meeting are 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday, 10:15 a.m. on MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME Wednesday, at 10:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. throughout. on Thursday, and at 10:15 a.m. on Friday. The Colloquium Lectures will be Late papers will not be accepted for given by Professor R. H. Bing of the Uni presentation at this meeting. versity of Wisconsin. The title of this This meeting will be held in con series of lectures is "Topology of 3-mani junction with meetings of the Mathematical folds." The Colloquium Lectures will be Association of America, the Institute of presented at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August Mathematical Statistics, and Pi Mu Epsi 25, in the Auditorium of the Arts and lon. The Mathematical Association of Sciences Building1 and at 9:00 a.m. on America will meet from Monday through Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August Wednesday. The Association will present 26-28, in Room 302 of the Classroom Professor Harry Kesten of Cornell Uni Building. versity as the Earle Raymond Hedrick By invitation of the Committee to Lecturer. The title of Professor Kesten's Select Hour Speakers for Annual and series of lectures will be "Escapades of a Summer Meetings, there will be two random walk." The Institute of Mathemati invited hour addresses at the meeting. cal Statistics will meet from Monday Professor Patrick P. Billingsley of the through Friday. The Wald Lectures, spon University of Chicago will speak on sored by the IMS, will be given by Profes Thursday, August 27, at 1:00 p.m. in the sor Murray Rosenblatt of the University Auditorium of the Arts and Sciences Build of California, San Diego. The subject of ing. The title of his lecture is "Some these lectures is "Topics in estimation probability results connected with Dio for stationary processes." Pi Mu Epsilon phantine approximation." Professor Srini will meet concurrently with the Society and vasa S. R. Varadhan of the Courant In the Association. stitute oJ Mathematical Sciences, New York University, will present an address en titled "Diffusion processes: a martingale approach." This lecture will be given at COUNCIL AND BUSINESS MEETING 1:00 p.m. on Friday, August 28, in the Auditorium of the Arts and Sciences The Council of the Society will meet Building. 707 on Tuesday, August 25, at 5:00p.m. in the BOOK SALES Rendezvous Room of the Washakie Center. There will be no book sale at this The Business Meeting of the Society will meeting. be held on Thursday, August 27, at4:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Arts and Sciences DORMITORY HOUSING Building. Rooms are available in a new dormi A proposed amendment to the By tory complex surrounding Washakie Cen laws, approved by the Council, is to be ter, registration headquarters. Dormitor submitted to the membership at the Busi ies have elevators and lounges, with ness Meeting. The effects are to make the kitchenettes on each floor. Coin-operated Committee to Monitor Problems in Com washers and dryers, as well as ironing munications be a statutory committee, boards and irons, are available. with members nominated by the nominating Rooms may be occupied from 2:00 committee and elected by the membership; p.m. Saturday, August 22, until Saturday to make the chairman of the committee, noon, August 29. Bed linens, blankets, elected by the committee, be a member of towels and soap will be provided, but the Council; to make the current members maid service is not available. The rates of the appointed committee be the initial are: $4.00 per day I per person, double elected members with staggered terms; occupancy, and $6.00 per day, single. No and to charge the committee with per additional charge is made for cribs in the formance of such tasks in the field of rooms, but the university cannot provide communication of mathematics as are them. Cribs can be rented from Smith's assigned to it by the Council. Outlet, 414 South Second Street (307-742- 2510) at $3.00 per week. Guests are ex REGISTRATION pected to pay for their rooms at the time The Registration Desk will be in the they check in. lobby of the Washakie Center. It will be Upon arrival, all guests should open on Sunday from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 check in at Washakie Center to register p.m.; on Monday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 for dormitory rooms. Turn north from p.m.; on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs Grand Avenue (U. S. 30 and Business In day from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on terstate 80) on 15th Street, and then east Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The at the first corner on !vinson Avenue. The telephone number will be 307-766-4340. registration area is on the lower level of The registration fees will be as Washakie Center. Dormitory personnel follows: will be on duty 24 hours a day to issue Members $5.00 keys. Student bellhops, who will accept Students $ 1.00 tips, will be available if desired. Nonmembers $10.00 Guests must register in advance to be assured of dormitory housing, using the There will be no extra charge for form provided on page 704 of the june of the families of registered members c)lotiaiJ • Dormitory reservations will be participants. confirmed by the housing office of the Uni versity of Wyoming. It is probable that EMPLOYMENT REGISTER room will be available for those who do not The joint Committee on Employ register in advance, but this cannot be ment Opportunities has decided not to guaranteed. have an Employment Register at the Laramie, Wyoming, meeting. FOOD SERVICES The dining room in Washakie Cen EXHIBITS ter will be open for lunch on Sunday, Aug Book exhibits and exhibits of edu ust 23, and will serve meals through break cational media will be displayed in the fast, Saturday, August 29, except during Wyoming Room of the Washakie Center the Buffalo Roast Wednesday evening. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.