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Dr. Guillermo Miranda is the author of "Mirandean Principles for Teaching, Learning, and Creating Math"
Electrical Engineer, University of Chile, August 1965.
Master of Science, M.Sc., Purdue University, January 1967.
Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., Purdue University, January 1969.
Mathematical Consultant in 3-dimensional elasticity for NASA, 1968/69. Post doctoral Visiting Member at Courant Institute, New York University, 09/01/69-08/31/70
Head of the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Catholic Univ. of Chile,71-73.
Coordinator of "PEPCE", Program of Postgraduate Studies in Exact Sciences,idem 1973.
Head of the Mathematics Department at the College of Science, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 07/01/74-75.
Founding Member of the Graduate Studies Commission in Mathematics at the College of Science, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1978.
Coordinator of the Differential Equations Group at the Mathematics Department, College of Science, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1979.
Full Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela, September 1989.
Coordinator of Basic Mathematics for the Physics Department, College of Science, Univ.Central de Venezuela, 1996.
Tutor of many Undergraduate and Graduate Thesis, and mentor for entrance to the University Roster in the category of Assistant Professor of many personalities, including Dr. Jose Zubiri, present Dean of the College of Science, Univ. Central de Venezuela, Dr.Nelson Merentes, former National Secretary of Finances with the Venezuelan Government, and also to the Dr. in Astrophysics, Nicolas Pereyra, who worked for NASA after receiving his doctoral degree at the University of Maryland, and who recently co-authored with Dr. Latapiat and myself, a paper dealing with a new theory of Vector Gravitational Waves and Trio-holes.
Retired Professor from Universidad Central de Venezuela, since 2003.
Author of several mathematics books, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including:
"Topics in Ordinary Differential Equations", College of Science, Univ. Central de Venezuela, 1975.
"Differential Equations Vol. II", Open National University, Caracas, Venezuela, 1984.
"Mathematics I for Physicists", April 1995.
"Mathematics II for Physicists", October 19(96.
"Mathematics III for Physicists", July 2000.
"Mathematical Methods for Physicists I" ( with Dr. Mariela Castillo ), November 2003.
These last four books were published by the Math. Department, College of Science, Univ. Central de Venezuela
."Ratios, Proportions and Percentages", ISBN 980-11-0539-0, booklet published by the Department of Mathematical Education, Universidad de los Andes ( ULA ), Merida, Vzla.,September 2001.
"Variable Compleja", ProDiMat Collection, UNEXPO Antonio Jose de Sucre, Department pf Basic Sciences "Luis Caballero Mejia", La Yaguara, Caracas, Vzla., January 2008.
1) "Integral equation solution of the First Initial Boundary Value Problem for the heat equation in domains with non-smooth boundary", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol.23, pp. 757-765 ( 1970 ).
2) "Pseudo-Differential Operators and Boundary Value Problems", Acta Cientifica Venezolana, Vol. 29, pp. 411-414 ( 1978 ).
3) "Integral equation solution of Oseen s Flow with a free surface" ( In collaboration with Dr. Henry Power ), Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 105, Springer, New York, 1983.
4) "The P.M. Method: A transient solver for compressible flow of crude oil in elastic pipelines using both Pressure and Flow Rate Boundary Data" ( In collaboration with Rafael Pastoriza ), Proceedings of the II International Congress of Energy, Atmosphere and Technological Innovation", pp. 111-114, Rome, Italy, October 1992.
5) "An exact solution for Pump-driven isothermal damped linearized pressure waves in nearly rigid rough Oil Pipelines", Proceedings Panamerican Workshop for Applied and Computational Mathematics, January 10-15 1993, Caracas, Venezuela.
6) "Wheeler s Gravitomagnetism Revisited I: A purely Lorentz-Compton approach to Vector Gravitational Waves and Trio-Holes" ( In collaboration with Dr. R. Latapiat and N. Pereyra ) appearing after September 20th, 2007 in: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007arXiv0710.0068L
7) "A generalized Rankine-Hugoniot Shock Condition and the Cauchy Problem for Burger s equation without viscosity in the presence of a moving Dirac delta as a source term ( in collaboration with Dr. Nicolas Pereyra, to appear soon at "unigrav" web domain.
1) Society of Chilean Engineers
2) American Mathematical Society
3) Chilean Mathematical Society
4) Venezuelan Mathematical Society
1) American Mathematical Society Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1969.
2) Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics of the American Mathematical Society, RPI, Troy, New York, August 1970.
3) Pan-American Congress of Numerical Methods, Caracas, June 1982.
4) International Conference "State-of-the-Art in Computational Machanics of Fluids", supported by INTEVEP, Los Teques, Venezuela, May 1991.
5) Second International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( ICIAM 91 ), sponsored by SIAM, Washington D.C.,July 1991.
6) II Congreso Internacional Energia, Ambiente e Innivacion Tecnologica, Rome, October 1992.
7) Tercera Escuela Venezolana para la ensenianza de la Matematica, La Hechicera ULA, Merida, Venezuela, October 2000.
8) Conference: "Mathematics applied to Engineering", presented at "I Cycle of ProDiMat Conferences", UNEXPO, Caracsa, Venezuela, October 2005.
9) Conference: "Nebular Theory of the Universe: From Swedenborg to the Big Bang", dictated for the Venezuelan Society of Astronomy on October 17, 2005, in the auleta de PostGrado of the College of Engineering, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas Vzla.
