Book ID: CBB000048322

A century of mathematics in America. With the assistance of Richard A. Askey, Merzbach, Uta C. (1988)

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Duren, Peter L. (Editor)


American Mathematical Society


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: 3 vols.; illus.; notes

Description Contents: Fiske, Thomas Scott: Mathematical progress in America. Fiske, Thomas Scott: The beginnings of the American Mathematical Society. Synge, J.L.: For the 100th birthday of the American Mathematical Society. Andrews, George E.: J.J. Sylvester, Johns Hopkins and partitions. Eisele, Carolyn: Thomas S. Fiske and Charles S. Peirce. Lefschetz, Solomon: Luther Pfahler Eisenhart. Widder, D.V.: Some mathematical reminiscences. Kleene, Stephen C.: The role of logical investigations in mathematics since 1930. Boas, R.P.: Memories of bygone meetings. Whitney, Hassler: Moscow 1935: Topology moving toward America. Montgomery, Deane: Oswald Veblen. Halmos, P.R.: Some books of Auld Lang Syne. Reingold, Nathan: Refugee mathematicians in the United States of America, 1933-1941: Reception and reaction. Lefschetz, Solomon: Reminiscences of a mathematical immigrant in the U.S. Niven, Ivan: The threadbare Thirties. Bers, Lipman: The European mathematicians' migration to America. Kaplansky, Irving: Abraham Adrian Alber. Lehmer, D.H.: A half century of reviewing. Price, G. Baley: American mathematicians in WWI. American mathematicians in war service. Rees, Mina: The mathematical sciences and world war service. Hilton, Peter: Reminiscences of Bletchley Park, 1942-1945. Rosser, J. Barkely: Mathematics and mathematicians in WWII. Goldstine, Herman H.: A brief history of the computer. Mac Lane, Saunders: Concepts and categories in perspective. Hall, Marshall, Jr.: Mathematical biography. Chern, Shiing-Shen: American differential geometry--Some personal notes. Price, G. Baley: The mathematical scene, 1940-1965. Massey, W.S.: Reminiscences of forty years as a mathematician. Davis, Chandler: The purge. Hamming, R.W.: The use of mathematics. Knuth, Donald E.: Algorithmic themes. Gorenstein, Daniel: The classification of the finite simple groups, a personal journey: The early years. Birkhoff, Garrett: Mathematics at Harvard, 1836-1944. Birkhoff, Garrett: The scientific work of Maxime Bôcher. Walsh, J.L.: William Fogg Osgood. Dorwart, Harold: Mathematics and Yale in the 1920s. Klein, Martin J.: The scientific style of Josiah Willard Gibbs. Smith, P.F.: The Department of Mathematics. Mac Lane, Saunders: Mathematics at the University of Chicago: A brief history. Parshall, Karen Hunger: Eliakim Hastings Moore and the founding of a mathematical community in America, 1892-1902. Duren, William L., Jr.: Graduate student at Chicago in the '20s. Stone, Marshall H.: Reminiscences of mathematics at Chicago. Browder, Felix E.: The stone age of mathematics on the Midway. Aspray, William: The emergence of Princeton as a world center for mathematical research, 1896-1939. Mac Lane, Saunders: Topology and logic at Princeton. Rota, Gian-Carlo: Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties. Royden, Halsey: The history of the Mathematics Department at Stanford. Rosenbloom, P.C.: Studying under Pólya and Szegö at Stanford. Rider, Robin E.: An opportune time: Griffith C. Evans and mathematics at Berkeley. Morawetz, Cathleen S.: The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Richardson, R.G.D.: The Ph.D. degree and mathematical research. Green, Judy, LaDuke, Jeanne: Women in American mathematics: A century of contributions. Duren, William L., Jr.: Mathematics in American society. Cohen, Leon W.: Recollections of a mathematical innocent in Washington. Lax, Peter: The flowering of applied mathematics in America. Greenberg, John L., Goodstein, Judith R.: Theodore von Kármán and applied mathematics in America. McMillan, Brockway: Norbert Wiener and chaos. Taussky, Olga: Some noncommutativity methods in algebraic number theory. Osserman, Robert: The geometry renaissance in America: 1938-1988. Bott, Raoul: The topological constraints on analysis. Kleiman, Steven L.: The development of intersection homology theory. Parshall, Karen Hunger, Rowe, David E.: American mathematics comes of age: 1875-1900. Cooke, Roger, Rickey, V. Frederick: W.E. Story of Hopkins and Clark. Rosenstein, George M., Jr.: The best method: American calculus textbooks of the 19th century. Scott, Charlotte Angas: Edwards' differential calculus. Borel, Armand: The School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Lorch, Edgar R.: Mathematics at Columbia during adolesence. Struik, Dirk J.: The MIT Department of Mathematics during its first 75 years: Some recollections. Kaplan, Wilfred: Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Wilder, Raymond L.: Reminiscences of mathematics at Michigan. Lewis, Albert C.: The building of the University of Texas mathematics faculty, 1883-1938. Kenschaft, Patricia Clark: Scott, Charlotte Angas (1858-1931). Langer, Rudolph E., Ingraham, Mark H.: Edward Burr Van Vleck, 1863-1943. Wilder, Raymond L.: The mathematical work of R.L. Moore: Its background, nature and influence. Grinstein, Louise S., Campbell, Paul J.: Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883-1966). Masani, P.R.: Norbert Wiener: A survey of a fragment of his life and work. Coifman, Ronald R., Strichartz, Robert S.: The school of Antoni Zygmund. Askey, Richard: Handbooks of special functions. Suppes, Patrick, Barwise, John, Feferman, Solomon: Commemorative meeting for Alfred Tarski, Stanford University--November 7, 1983. Reid, Constance, Robinson, Raphael M.: Julia Bowman Robinson (1919-1985). Wermer, John: Function algebras in the fifties and sixties. Mac Lane, Saunders: Addendum: Concepts and categories in perspective. Ahlfors, L.V.: The joy of function theory. Donaldson, James A.: Black Americans in mathematics. Kelley, J.L.: Once over lightly. Mac Lane, Saunders: The applied mathematics group at Columbia in World War II. Mac Lane, Saunders: The education of Ph.D.s in mathematics. Pitcher, Everett: Off the record. Stigler, Stephen M.: Mathematical statistics in the early states. Doob, J.L.: William Feller and 20th-century probability. Craig, Cecil C.: Early days in statistics at Michigan. Eisenhart, Churchill: S.S. Wilks' Princeton appointment, and statistics at Princeton before Wilk. DeGroot, Morris H.: A conversation with David Blackwell. Nesbitt, Cecil J.: Personal reflecitons on actuarial science in North America. Merzbach, Uta C.: The study of the history of mathematics in America: A centennial sketch. Burchsted, Frederic F.: Sources for the history of mathematics in the archives of American mathematics.


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