Topic #9 -------------- OP-SF NET 4.1 --------------- January 15, 1997 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Walter Van AsscheSubject: Stieltjes Proceedings Volume A special issue of the "Annales de la Faculte des Sciences de Toulouse" titled "100 ans apres Th.-J. Stieltjes" (100 years after Th.-J. Stieltjes) has just been published (November 1996) by the Universite Paul Sabatier. Guest editor is J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty. This special issue contains the texts of the plenary talks of a Colloquium at the Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) held in March 1995. The talks are: * Christian Berg: "Moment problems and polynomial approximation" (pp. 9-32) * Jean-Pierre Kahane: "Sur trois notes de Stieltjes relatives aux series de Dirichlet" (pp. 33-56) * Jacob Korevaar: "Electrostatic fields due to distributions of electrons" (pp. 57-76) * Thomas William Korner: "On the representation of functions by trigonometric series" (pp. 77-119) * Herbert Stahl: "Diagonal Pade approximants to hyperelliptic functions" (pp. 121-193) * Walter Van Assche: "Compact Jacobi matrices: from Stieltjes to Krein and M(a,b)" (pp. 194-215) This special issue can be ordered at the price of 175 FF (French Francs) plus shipping. Send your order to: Prof. J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty Universite Paul Sabatier 118, route de Narbonne F-31062 Toulouse Cedex FRANCE