Earl D. Rainville
American mathematician (1907–1966)
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Professor Earl David Rainville (5 November 1907 – 29 April 1966[1]) taught in the Department of Engineering Mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he began as an assistant professor in 1941.[2] He studied at the University of Colorado Boulder,[3] receiving his B.A. there in 1930 before going on to graduate studies at Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1939 under the supervision of Ruel Churchill.[4]
He was the author of several textbooks.
Books
- Linear Differential Invariance Under an Operator Related to the Laplace Transformation, University of Michigan, 1940, reprinted from American Journal of Mathematics, volume 62. (Rainville's Ph.D. thesis.)
- Intermediate Course in Differential Equations, Chapman & Hall, 1943.
- Analytic Geometry, with Clyde E. Love, Macmillan, 1955.
- Special Functions, Macmillan, 1960.[5]
- Unified Calculus and Analytic Geometry, Macmillan, 1961.
- Differential and Integral Calculus, with Clyde E. Love, Macmillan, 1962.
- Laplace Transform: An Introduction, 1963.
- Intermediate Differential Equations, Macmillan, 1964.
- Infinite Series, Macmillan, 1967.
- Elementary Differential Equations, with Phillip E. Bedient, Macmillan, 1969. Eighth edition published by Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN 0-13-508011-8.
- A Short Course in Differential Equations, with Phillip E. Bedient, Macmillan, 1969.
