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Century of Mathematics in America, Part 1
Av American Mathematical Society
Häftad, 1988
1509 kr
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In the 100 years since the founding of the AMS, the American mathematical community has grown from a small group heavily dependent on European mathematicians to a large and influential group that in many areas sets the standard for the rest of the world. By the 1930s, there was a flourishing …
Century of Mathematics in America, Part 2
Av American Mathematical Society
Häftad, 1989
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The first section of the book deals with some of the influential mathematics departments in the United States. Functioning as centers of research and training, these departments played a major role in shaping the mathematical life in this country. The second section deals with an extraordinary …
Century of Mathematics in America, Part 3
Av American Mathematical Society
Häftad, 1989
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The present book is the third and final volume in the ""A Century of Mathematics in America"" collection. The theme of the second volume is continued here in articles describing the mathematics and the mathematical personalities in some of the nations' prominent departments: Johns Hopkins, Clark, …
Essays in the History of Lie Groups and Algebraic Groups
Av American Mathematical Society
Inbunden, 2001
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Algebraic groups and Lie groups are important in most major areas of mathematics, occuring in diverse roles such as the symmetries of differential equations and as central figures in the Langlands program for number theory. In this book, Professor Borel looks at the development of the theory of Lie …
Poincare and the Three Body Problem
Häftad, 1996
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The idea of chaos figures prominently in mathematics today. It arose in the work of one of the greatest mathematicians of the late 19th century, Henri Poincare, on a problem in celestial mechanics: the three body problem. This ancient problem - to describe the paths of three bodies in mutual …
Mathematics and Mathematicians
Mathematics in Sweden Before 1950
Av Lars Garding
Inbunden, 1997
1509 kr
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This book is about mathematics in Sweden between 1630 and 1950 - from S. Klingenstierna to M. Riesz, T. Carleman, and A. Beurling. It tells the story of how continental mathematics came to Sweden, how it was received, and how it inspired new results. The book contains a biography of Gosta …
Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, 1876-1900
J.J.Sylvester, Felix Klein and E.H.Moore
Av Karen Hunger Parshall, David E. Rowe
Häftad, 1994
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This volume traces the transformation of the United States from a mathematical backwater to a major presence during the quarter-century from 1876 to 1900. Presenting a detailed study of the major figures involved in this transformation, it focuses on the three most influential individuals - the …
Sources of Hyperbolic Geometry
Häftad, 1996
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This book presents, for the first time in English, the papers of Beltrami, Klein, and Poincare that brought hyperbolic geometry into the mainstream of mathematics. A recognition of Beltrami comparable to that given the pioneering works of Bolyai and Lobachevsky seems long overdue - not only because …
Extension Theory
Av American Mathematical Society
Häftad, 2000
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The Ausdehnungslehre of 1862 is Grassmann's most mature presentation of his 'extension theory'. The work was unique in capturing the full sweep of his mathematical achievements. Compared to Grassmann's first book, ""Lineale Ausdehnungslehre"", this book contains an enormous amount of new material, …
Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science
Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy
Av American Mathematical Society
Inbunden, 1999
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This book reveals the rich collection of mathematical works located at the nation's first military school, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. It outlines the relevant history of the Academy, discusses the mathematics department and curriculum, and describes the development of the library …
Mathematics Unbound
The Evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800-1945
Av American Mathematical Society
Inbunden, 2002
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Although today's mathematical research community takes its international character very much for granted, this 'global nature' is relatively recent, having evolved over a period of roughly 150 years - from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. During this …
History of Analysis
Inbunden, 2003
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Analysis as an independent subject was created as part of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Fermat, Huygens, Newton, and Leibniz, to name but a few, contributed to its genesis. Since the end of the seventeenth century, the historical progress of …
Ramanujan
Essays and Surveys
Av Bruce C. Berndt, Robert Rankin
Inbunden, 2001
1601 kr
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This book contains essays on Ramanujan and his work that were written especially for this volume. It also includes important survey articles in areas influenced by Ramanujan's mathematics. Most of the articles in the book are nontechnical, but even those that are more technical contain substantial …
Kolmogorov in Perspective
Av American Mathematical Society
Häftad, 2006
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The editorial board for the History of Mathematics series has selected for this volume a series of translations from two Russian publications, Kolmogorov in Remembrance and Mathematics and its Historical Development. This book, Kolmogorov in Perspective, includes articles written by Kolmogorov's …
St.Petersburg School of Number Theory
Av American Mathematical Society
Inbunden, 2005
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For over two centuries, the work of the St. Petersburg mathematicians in number theory has constituted a glorious contribution to mathematics. The Russian book, ""The St. Petersburg School of Number Theory"", is about the life and work of prominent members of this school, such as Chebyshev, Korkin, …
Hausdorff on Ordered Sets
Av J.M. Plotkin
Häftad, 2005
1509 kr
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Georg Cantor, the founder of set theory, published his last paper on sets in 1897. In 1900, David Hilbert made Cantor's Continuum Problem and the challenge of well-ordering the real numbers the first problem of his famous lecture at the International Congress in Paris. Thus, as the nineteenth …
Scope and History of Commutative and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis
Häftad, 2005
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When I was invited to speak at the conference on the history of analysis given at Rice University [in 1977], I decided that it might be interesting to review the history of mathematics and physics in the last three hundred years or so with heavy emphasis on those parts in which harmonic analysis …
Volterra Chronicles
The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Mathematician 1860-1940
Inbunden, 2007
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The life of Vito Volterra, one of the finest scientists and mathematicians Italy ever produced, spans the period from the unification of the Italian peninsula in 1860 to the onset of the Second World War--an era of unparalleled progress and unprecedented turmoil in the history of Europe. Born into …
Exposition by Emil Artin
A Selection
Av American Mathematical Society
Häftad, 2006
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Emil Artin was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He had the rare distinction of having solved two of the famous problems posed by David Hilbert in 1900. He showed that every positive definite rational function of several variables was a sum of squares. He also discovered and …
Mathematics and Social Utopias in France
Olinde Rodrigues and His Times
Av Simon Altmann, Eduardo L. Ortiz
Häftad, 2013
1509 kr
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Social reformer, banker, and mathematician, Olinde Rodrigues is a fascinating figure of nineteenth-century Paris. Information about him is obscure--scattered in publications on history, mathematics, and the social sciences--and often inaccurate. Rodrigues left no papers or archives. Here, for the …
Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics
Av American Mathematical Society
Inbunden, 2007
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This volume contains articles on the history of Soviet mathematics, many of which are personal accounts by mathematicians who witnessed and contributed to the turbulent and glorious years of Moscow mathematics. The articles in the book focus on mathematical developments in that era, the personal …
Early Days in Complex Dynamics
A History of Complex Dynamics in One Variable During 1906-1942
Av Daniel S. Alexander, Felice Lavernaro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1509 kr
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The theory of complex dynamics, whose roots lie in 19th-century studies of the iteration of complex function conducted by Koenigs, Schoder, and others, flourished remarkably during the first half of the 20th century, when many of the central ideas and techniques of the subject developed. This book …
Scientific Legacy of Poincare
Av Éric Charpentier, Étienne Ghys m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1509 kr
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Henri Poincare (1854-1912) was one of the greatest scientists of his time, perhaps the last one to have mastered and expanded almost all areas in mathematics and theoretical physics. He created new mathematical branches, such as algebraic topology, dynamical systems, and automorphic functions, and …
Papers on Topology
Analysis Situs and Its Five Supplements
Häftad, 2010
1509 kr
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The papers in this book chronicle Henri Poincaré's journey in algebraic topology between 1892 and 1904, from his discovery of the fundamental group to his formulation of the Poincaré conjecture. For the first time in English translation, one can follow every step (and occasional stumble) along the …
Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800-1950)
Av Jeremy J. Gray, Karen Hunger Parshall
Häftad, 2011
1509 kr
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Algebra, as a subdiscipline of mathematics, arguably has a history going back some 4000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. The history, however, of what is recognized today as high school algebra is much shorter, extending back to the sixteenth century, while the history of what practicing …
Theory of Algebraic Functions of One Variable
Av Richard Dedekind, Heinrich Weber
Häftad, 2012
1509 kr
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This book is the first English translation of the classic long paper Theorie der algebraischen Functionen einer Veranderlichen (Theory of algebraic functions of one variable), published by Dedekind and Weber in 1882. The translation has been enriched by a Translator's Introduction that provides …
Pearls from a Lost City
The Lvov School of Mathematics
Av Roman Duda
Inbunden, 2014
1509 kr
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The fame of the Polish school at Lvov rests with the diverse and fundamental contributions of Polish mathematicians working there during the interwar years. In particular, despite material hardship and without a notable mathematical tradition, the school made major contributions to what is now …
War of Guns and Mathematics
Mathematical Practices and Communities in France and Its Western Allies Around World War I
Av David Aubin, Catherine Goldstein
Inbunden, 2014
1509 kr
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For a long time, World War I has been shortchanged by the historiography of science. Until recently, World War II was usually considered as the defining event for the formation of the modern relationship between science and society. In this context, the effects of the First World War, by contrast, …
Mathematics Across the Iron Curtain
A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups
Inbunden, 2014
1509 kr
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The theory of semigroups is a relatively young branch of mathematics, with most of the major results having appeared after the Second World War. This book describes the evolution of (algebraic) semigroup theory from its earliest origins to the establishment of a full-fledged theory. Semigroup …
