Murray R. Spiegel

Murray R. Spiegel
Born Murray Ralph Spiegel
United States
Died United States
Alma mater Cornell University
Occupation Author, mathematician

Murray Ralph Spiegel was an author of technical books on applied mathematics, including a popular collection of Schaum's Outlines.[1]

Spiegel was a native of Brooklyn and a graduate of New Utrecht High School. 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 Harvard University in 1943-1945, a consultant with Monsanto Chemical Company in the summer of 1946, and a teaching fellow at Cornell from 1946 to 1949. He was a consultant in geophysics for Beers & Heroy in 1950, and a consultant in aerodynamics for Wright Air Development Center 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. [2] His Doctoral Dissertation supervised by Marc Kac[3] was “On the Random Vibrations of Harmonically Bound Particles in a Viscous Medium.” [4]

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  1. ↑ Library of Congress name authority file
  2. ↑ Archives of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,John Dojka Institute Archivist/Head, Special Collections Folsom Library Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180 518-276-8341, Fax 518-276-2044
  3. ↑ Cornell University Doctorates 1940-1959
  4. ↑ Mathematics Genealogy Project https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=5279


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