Murray Ralph Spiegel (1923-1991) was an author of

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s on mathematics, including titles in a collection of

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. Spiegel was a native of

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and a graduate of

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. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Brooklyn College in 1943. He earned a master's degree in 1947 and doctorate in 1949, both in mathematics and both at Cornell University. He was a teaching fellow at

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in 1943–1945, a consultant with Monsanto Chemical Company in the summer of 1946, and a teaching fellow at

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from 1946 to 1949. He was a consultant in geophysics for Beers & Heroy in 1950, and a consultant in aerodynamics for

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from 1950 to 1954. Spiegel joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1949 as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in 1954 and a full professor in 1957. He was assigned to the faculty Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Hartford, CT, when that branch was organized in 1955, where he served as chair of the mathematics department. His PhD dissertation, supervised by Marc Kac, was titled ''On the Random Vibrations of Harmonically Bound Particles in a Viscous Medium.''

Works

*Schaum's Outline of College Algebra (First Edition: 1956) ost Recent Edition: 2018*Schaum's Outline of College Physics *Schaum's Outline of Statistics (FE: 1961) RE: 2018*Schaum's Outline of Advanced Calculus (1963)

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*Schaum's Outline of Complex Variables (1964)

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*Schaum's Outline of Laplace Transforms (1965) *Schaum's Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables (1968)

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*Schaum's Outline of Vector Analysis nd An Introduction to Tensor Analysis(1968)

*Schaum's Outline of Real Variables (1969) *Schaum's Outline of Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists (1971)

*Schaum's Outline of Finite Differences and Difference Equations (1971) *Schaum's Outline of Fourier Analysis with Applications to Boundary-Value Problems (1974) *Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics (1975)

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*Schaum's Outline of Theoretical Mechanics (1967) *Applied Differential Equations (1963) 980

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* 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty 1923 births 1991 deaths Brooklyn College alumni {{US-mathematician-stub