Michael Spivak

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Michael David Spivak (born 1940) is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. He is the author of the five-volume A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of John Milnor in 1964.[1]

He was born in Queens, New York. [citation needed]

His book Calculus takes a rigorous and theoretical approach to introductory calculus. It is used in calculus courses, particularly those with a pure mathematics emphasis, at many universities.[citation needed]

Spivak has also written The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting With the AMS-TeX Macro Package and The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus. The famous book Morse Theory, by John Milnor, was based on lecture notes by Spivak and Robert Wells.[citation needed] Spivak's book Calculus on Manifolds is also rather infamous as being one of the most difficult undergraduate mathematics textbooks.

Spivak has lectured on elementary physics.[2] His most recent book, Physics for Mathematicians: Mechanics I, which contains the material that these lectures stemmed from and more, was published on December 6, 2010.[3]

In each of his books Spivak has hidden references to yellow pigs, an idea he apparently came up with at a bar while drinking with David C. Kelly.[citation needed]

Spivak is also the designer of the MathTime Professional 2 fonts which are widely used in academic publishing.[4]

Bibliography

  • Calculus on Manifolds: A Modern Approach to Classical Theorems of Advanced Calculus, (1965)
  • Calculus, (1967, 4th ed. 2008)
  • A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry,[5][6] (1979, 3rd ed. 1999)
  • The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX Macro package, (1990)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus, (1995)
  • Physics for Mathematicians: Mechanics I, (2010)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Michael Spivak". Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-06. 
  2. ↑ Videos of Spivak's 2004 Pathway Lectures at Keio University and the text for Elementary mechanics from a mathematician's viewpoint.
  3. ↑ "Physics for Mathematicians, Mechanics I". Amazon.com. Retrieved November 4, 2010. 
  4. ↑ "MathTime Professional 2 Fonts". pctex.com. Retrieved October 15, 2013. 
  5. ↑ Guillemin, Victor (1973). "Review: A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry, Vols. 1 & 2, by M. Spivak". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (2): 303–306. 
  6. ↑ Alexander, Stephanie (1978). "Review: A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry, Vols. 3, 4, & 5, by M. Spivak". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1): 27–32. 

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