Herbert Wilf'

Herbert Wilf's Home Page

We report with great sadness that Herbert Wilf died on January 7, 2012. For more information, please see the following links: obituaries in various newspapers, words spoken by family and friends at a memorial service held on January 15, 2012, an update to the list of papers appearing below, recent talks and publications in his honor by other mathematicians, and recent videos of talks and remarks by Herbert Wilf. For corrections and/or suggestions for further updates or additions, please contact cgreene@haverford.edu. The rest of this page remains as he left it in late 2011.

My Mathematics Books Available for Free Downloading (Downloads from this web site now are about 350,000 files per year)

generatingfunctionology (publisher: A K Peters, Ltd.) The Third (print) Edition is now available. The Second Edition is available for downloading.
"A=B", by Marko Petkovsek, Doron Zeilberger and myself. (publisher: A K Peters, Ltd.)
Algorithms and Complexity (publisher: A K Peters, Ltd.)
East Side, West Side (Lecture notes on combinatorial objects and Maple programs for generating them. Copyright 1999.)
Lectures on Integer Partitions (From PIMS lectures given in summer 2000 at U. of Victoria. Copyright 2000.)
Lecture Notes on Numerical Analysis (By Dennis Deturck and myself; For a junior-senior level course; covers numerical solution of ODE's and numerical linear algebra. Copyright 2002.)
Mathematics for the Physical Sciences A text for a graduate course in mathematical methods. Published by Dover Publications, and available here for downloading.
Combinatorial Algorithms (NEW) By Albert Nijenhuis and myself; published originally by Academic Press, and now available here for downloading.

My Papers
My years as an airplane pilot (NEW)
Some unsolved problems
Gerald Goertzel, my mentor,-- a remembrance
Remembrances
Birthday Tributes
Photos from my birthday conference in the summer of 1996
Searching the web, using eigenvectors is a brief description of the Kendall-Wei ranking method. It's a good motivator for classes in matrix algebra since it shows how search engines like Google use eigenvectors to do their searches.
Honors and Awards
PhD Students
My page in Wikipedia
Other

Some links

A conference that celebrates my forthcoming 80th birthday will be held at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in May 2011.
Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China is a new book by Kang Zhengguo, about his life in China during the Cultural Revolution. It was translated from Chinese by Susan Wilf.
If you're an expectant parent who lives in the New York City or Philadelphia areas, new local guides to having a healthy birth have just appeared. See them at the Choices in Childbirth web site.
Peter Wilf's home page, in my impartial opinion, is a rich source of paleontological information.
A critical history of hypnotism is a new book by my nephew Saul Rosenfeld, that debunks the bad reputation that hypnotism has.
The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics is a peer reviewed journal of combinatorics that is free on the WWW, and boasts an outstanding Editorial Board. Here is how the Journal got started.
There are plenty of papers, opinions, and programs available on Doron Zeilberger's home page
Eric Weisstein's MathWorld is a wonderful reference site for mathematics.
Frank Ruskey's Combinatorial Object Server at the University of Victoria.
Here is a nice list of mathematics books that are available online
This is a fine book on Graph Theory, by J.A. Bondy and U.S.R. Murty, that is available online.
Here is the web site from which you can consult or download, free, a wonderful and important reference and textbook, namely Numerical Recipes, with Fortran or C programs.
Here is an outstanding, and freely downloadable, text on real analysis, by William Trench. See item 13 on the page.
The home page of The Penn Mathematics Department.

Thomas A. Scott Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
University of Pennsylvania
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