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James L. Cooley
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- By James L. Cooley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Edited by Andrew Sterrett
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- 101 Careers in Mathematics
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- Mathematical Association of America
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- 05 September 2014
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- 01 April 2014, pp 48-49
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Summary
What does a math major do at NASA surrounded by engineers, physicists, and astronomers? Mathematicians provide excellent background to model physical systems. The physical systems can be related to a spacecraft (an attitude system, a propulsion system, etcetera), a spacecraft support system (such as a ground or space tracking system), or a system in nature (such as the earth's gravity field or atmosphere). Mathematics provides excellent background to model data (such as noisy or biased data taken from an attitude system or a tracking system) and determine the optimal information from the data. Mathematics also provides excellent background to understand geometric relationships and deal with changing relationships over different time scales (predicting ahead, in real-time, and after the fact).
After graduating from Pennsylvania State University and adding an additional year of graduate study in mathematics at the University of Maryland, I joined the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1963. Immediately there was the challenging problem of modeling the tracking system for the Apollo program. There continued to be many challenging problems in the area of flight dynamics: the area encompassing orbits and orbit maneuvers, attitude systems and attitude maneuvers, and spacecraft tracking. Other challenges involved modeling tracking from spacecraft (the tracking and data relay system) instead of from ground antennas, controlling spacecraft dipping low into the atmosphere, and controlling spacecraft around a mathematical point (the sun-earth calibration point).
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- PMLA / Publications of the Modern Language Association of America / Volume 115 / Issue 7 / December 2000
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- 23 October 2020, pp. 1986-2078
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- December 2000
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Abnormal Returns from Merger Profiles
- James W. Wansley, Rodney L. Roenfeldt, Philip L. Cooley
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- Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis / Volume 18 / Issue 2 / June 1983
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- 06 April 2009, pp. 149-162
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- June 1983
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Several studies indicate the presence of large abnormal returns accruing to shareholders of merged firms in the period immediately before the merger. For example, Mandelker [18] reports that stockholders of acquired firms earn abnormal returns of approximately 14 percent in the seven months preceding merger. Franks, Broyles, and Hecht [15] find abnormal returns of 26 percent for British firms during the four months prior to merger; Elgers and Clark [11] report 43 percent abnormal returns accruing over two years before merger to shareholders of acquired firms.