Book Description
Part of the "History of Mathematics" series, this book presents a variety of perspectives on the political, social, and mathematical forces that have shaped the American mathematical community.
Author : Peter L. Duren
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821801246
Part of the "History of Mathematics" series, this book presents a variety of perspectives on the political, social, and mathematical forces that have shaped the American mathematical community.
Author : Peter L. Duren
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821801369
Part of the A Century of Mathematics in America collection, this book contains articles that describe the mathematics and the mathematical personalities in some of the nations' prominent departments: Johns Hopkins, Clark, Columbia, MIT, Michigan, Texas, and the Institute for Advanced Study.
Author : Peter L. Duren
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821801307
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 conference held at Princeton in 1946 to commemorate the university's bicentennial. The influence of women in American mathematics, the burgeoning of differential geometry in the last 50 years, and discussions of the work of von Karman and Weiner are among other topics covered.
Author : Peter L. Duren
Publisher :
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Steve Nadis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674727894
In the twentieth century, American mathematicians began to make critical advances in a field previously dominated by Europeans. Harvard’s mathematics department was at the center of these developments. A History in Sum is an inviting account of the pioneers who trailblazed a distinctly American tradition of mathematics—in algebraic geometry and topology, complex analysis, number theory, and a host of esoteric subdisciplines that have rarely been written about outside of journal articles or advanced textbooks. The heady mathematical concepts that emerged, and the men and women who shaped them, are described here in lively, accessible prose. The story begins in 1825, when a precocious sixteen-year-old freshman, Benjamin Peirce, arrived at the College. He would become the first American to produce original mathematics—an ambition frowned upon in an era when professors largely limited themselves to teaching. Peirce’s successors—William Fogg Osgood and Maxime Bôcher—undertook the task of transforming the math department into a world-class research center, attracting to the faculty such luminaries as George David Birkhoff. Birkhoff produced a dazzling body of work, while training a generation of innovators—students like Marston Morse and Hassler Whitney, who forged novel pathways in topology and other areas. Influential figures from around the world soon flocked to Harvard, some overcoming great challenges to pursue their elected calling. A History in Sum elucidates the contributions of these extraordinary minds and makes clear why the history of the Harvard mathematics department is an essential part of the history of mathematics in America and beyond.
Author : Peter L Duren
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Brian Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1118853970
Throughout the book, readers take a journey throughout time and observe how people around the world have understood these patterns of quantity, structure, and dimension around them. The Development of Mathematics Throughout the Centuries: A Brief History in a Cultural Contex provides a brief overview of the history of mathematics in a very straightforward and understandable manner and also addresses major findings that influenced the development of mathematics as a coherent discipline. This book: Highlights the contributions made by various world cultures including African, Egyptian, Babylonian, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and pre-Columbian American mathematics Features an approach that is not too rigorous and is ideal for a one-semester course of the history of mathematics. Includes a Resources and Recommended Reading section for further exploration and has been extensively classroom-tested
Author : Peter L. Duren
Publisher :
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Nerida F. Ellerton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401780957
The focus of this book is the fundamental influence of the cyphering tradition on mathematics education in North American colleges, schools, and apprenticeship training classes between 1607 and 1861. It is the first book on the history of North American mathematics education to be written from that perspective. The principal data source is a set of 207 handwritten cyphering books that have never previously been subjected to careful historical analysis.
Author : D. E. Smith
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 1934-12-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1614440050
This classic history of American mathematics was first published in 1934. “America”, for the authors, is defined as the “territory north of the Caribbean Sea and the Rio Grande River.” This slim volume surveys the mathematics of the early colonial period including the knowledge available for the average colonist; the progress made corresponding to various influxes of population from Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain; the beginnings of mathematical work in colleges and universities and the rapid acceleration in the last quarter of the nineteenth century; the development and growth of a professional infrastructure of societies and publications; and biographical information of particularly significant characters. The book pays special attention to the needs of commerce, exploration, and everyday life that drove the development of mathematics in the centuries before a professionalization of mathematics appeared in the nineteenth century.