Topic #9  --------------  OP-SF NET 4.1 --------------- January 15, 1997
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From: Walter Van Assche 
Subject: 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