Book ID: CBB000032772

The emergence of the American mathematical research community, 1876-1900: J.J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E.H. Moore (1994)

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Parshall, Karen V. Hunger (Author)
Rowe, David E. (Author)


American Mathematical Society


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: xxiv + 500 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Grattan-Guinness, I. (1996) Review of "The emergence of the American mathematical research community, 1876-1900: J.J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E.H. Moore". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 187-88). unapi

Review Reid, C. (1995) Review of "The emergence of the American mathematical research community, 1876-1900: J.J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E.H. Moore". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (pp. 349-54). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Parshall, Karen V. Hunger
Tobies, Renate
Seneta, Eugene
Le, François
Hunger, Karen Parshall
Siqueira, Rogério Monteiro da
Journals
Historia Mathematica
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Rivista di Storia della Scienza
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Matrix Theory
Sustainability
Invariants (mathematics)
Professional qualifications; status; remuneration
People
Sylvester, James Joseph
Klein, Felix
Whitehead, Alfred North
Waring, Edward
Ward, Samuel
Peirce, Benjamin
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
University of Chicago
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