A Century of Mathematics in America: Part 1

Peter Duren

Publisher:

American Mathematical Society

Publication Date:

1988

Number of Pages:

477

Format:

Paperback

Series:

History of Mathematics

Price:

91.00

ISBN:

9780821801246

Category:

Anthology

BLL Rating:

BLL**

The Basic Library List Committee strongly recommends this book for acquisition by undergraduate mathematics libraries.

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T. S. Fiske -- Mathematical progress in America; The beginnings of the American Mathematical Society, Reminiscences of Thomas Scott Fiske
J. L. Synge -- For the 100th birthday of the American Mathematical Society
G. E. Andrews -- J. J. Sylvester, Johns Hopkins, and Partitions
C. Eisele -- Thomas S. Fiske and Charles S. Peirce
S. Lefschetz -- Luther Pfahler Eisenhart
D. V. Widder -- Some mathematical reminiscences
S. C. Kleene -- The role of logical investigations in mathematics since 1930
R. P. Boas -- Memories of bygone meetings
H. Whitney -- Moscow 1935: Topology moving toward America
D. Montgomery -- Oswald Veblen
P. R. P. R. Halmos -- Some books of Auld Lang Syne
N. Reingold -- Refugee mathematicians in the United States of America, 1933-1941: Reception and reaction
S. Lefschetz -- Reminiscences of a mathematical immigrant in the U.S.
I. Niven -- The threadbare thirties
L. Bers -- The European mathematicians' migration to America
I. Kaplansky -- Abraham Adrian Albert
D. H. Lehmer -- A half century of reviewing
G. B. Price -- American mathematicians in WWI; American mathematicians in War service
M. Rees -- The mathematical sciences and World War service
P. Hilton -- Reminiscences of Bletchley Park, 1942-45
J. B. Rosser -- Mathematics and mathematicians in WWII
H. H. Goldstine -- A brief history of the computer
S. Mac Lane -- Concepts and categories in perspective
M. Hall, Jr. -- Mathematical biography
S.-S. Chern -- merican differential geometry--some personal notes
G. B. Price -- The mathematical scene, 1940-1965
W. S. Massey -- Reminiscences of forty years as a mathematician
C. Davis -- The purge
R. W. Hamming -- The use of mathematics
D. E. Knuth -- Algorithmic themes
D. Gorenstein -- The classification of the finite simple groups, a personal journey: The early years.