Home Page of Ward Cheney
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DISCLAIMER: The Vice-President,
Dick Cheney, pronounces his name "Chay-nee".
Until he was 35 years old he pronounced it "Chee-nee", which is
how my family pronounces the name. He is my eighth-cousin-once-
removed. (Thus, his father
was an 8th cousin to me, and Dick himself is a 9th cousin to my children.)
We are both descended from a William
Cheney, who emigrated from England to Roxbury, Mass. around 1635.
Of course, I do NOT endorse Cousin Dick's politics.
CONTENTS OF THIS SITE: There is an anonymous
FTP
site for research papers and other files of (possibly) general interest.
In particular, there is a file "book-sale" listing approximately 150
mathematics books for sale. If you wish to look at the books available
make an arrangement with me: cheney@math.utexas.edu. My office
is RLM 13.158. The list of books is here on the web as well.
There is a subdirectory
ATBOOK
containing files that pertain to the book "A Course in Approximation
Theory" by Cheney and Light. In particular, there are errata, new
references, and comments about problems.
A 16-page document that I have written gives suggestions for achieving
good style
in mathematical writing. The file name is "advice.pdf" and is
in the ftp site
mentioned above. This document collects advice from many sources.
Click
HERE
to see it (if you are using a suitable browser), or download it for
printing.
For codes and other material related to the book
"Numerical Mathematics
and Computing"
by Dr. David Kincaid and myself, there is an anonymous ftp site.
For the more advanced book
"Numerical
Analysis" by Kincaid and Cheney, there is a similar source.
I am interested in genealogy, and have
much information about my family's ancestory, including the
surnames Cheney, DeWolf, Bemis, Jenks, Goddard, Ward, Thayer, Brailey,
Stevens, Pratt, Wheaton.....
A genealogy of my branch of the Cheney family has been written by
Charles Pope. Long out of print, this book is available in a set
of 24 PDF files. A zip file containing these 24 files is also
available. Click here to see or download the book.
POPE
I maintain a list of piano trios (piano, violin/clarinet/viola, and
cello). These are either written for clarinet or
can be played by clarinet using suitable transposition from the violin part.
To see it, click
TRIOS
The machine I usually use is called
Iso.
The network address of this home page is
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/cheney
My email address is: cheney@math.utexas.edu
My postal address is: Math. Dept., Univ. of Texas,
Austin, TX 78712
My FAX number is (512) 471-9038
If you want to see what the CAM program brochure has
about me, including a picture, click
HERE.
The information there is not current: The book "Numerical Mathematics
and Computing" with co-author D.R. Kincaid is now entering its 5th
edition. The graduate-level textbook "A Course in Approximation Theory"
with co-author W.A. Light appeared in 1999, and the graduate-level
textbook "Analysis for Applied Mathematics" appeared in 2000. It is
volume 208 in the Springer series "Graduate Texts in Mathematics".
If you want to see what's in that anonymous ftp site, click
HERE.
The INDEX file has the table of contents for the directory.
Files of the form *.ps or *.pdf can be perused on-line with suitable
browsers, such as Mosaic or Netscape (and they can be down-loaded
for printing). Files in text form can be read with the simplest
browsers such as Lynx, and can be down-loaded. If
you want any file in PDF format, let me know and I can furnish it.