Irish Mathematical Society

Cumann Matamaitice na hÉireann

BULLETIN Number 35 Christmas 1995

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

• IMS Officers and Local Represenattives ...... ii
• Notes on Applying for IMS Nenbership ...... iii
• Minutes of IMS meeting 11.4.95 .................... 1

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• Expository Articles
• Tensor products and Projections ........
  ...... Seán Dineen & Mamoru Yoshida ................ 4
• On the Continuation of Holomorphic Mappings ...
  ---- Mamoru Yoshida ....................................... 12
• Musical Scales .....................................
  ..... María José Garmendia Ridríguez
       Juan Antonio Navarro González ................. 24

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• Historical Articles
• Some Galway Professors of Mathematics and of Natural Philosophy ..
  ..... Rod Gow .................................................... 42
• George Gabriel Stokes 1819 - 1903 An Irish Mathematical Physicist ..
  ..... Alastair Wood ............................................ 49
• Sir George Gabriel Stokes: The Malahide Connection ..
  ....... A. Kinsella ................................................ 59

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• Book Reviews
• Introduction to MAPLE by Andre Heck ......
  ............. Pat O'Leary ..................................... 63
• Theory of Singular Boundary Value Problems by
  D. O'Regan ..... Johnny Henderson ................. 65

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• Problem
• A Problem of Bourbaki on Field Theory ........ 75