| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 249 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: The Early Days-- A "Colledge" Riseth in the Cowyards -- 1. Benjamin Peirce and the Science of "Necessary Conclusions" -- 2 Osgood, Bôcher, and the Great Awakening in American Mathematics -- 3. The Dynamical Presence of George David Birkhoff -- 4. Analysis and Algebra Meet Topology: Marston Morse, Hassler Whitney, and Saunders Mac Lane -- 5. Analysis Most Complex: Lars Ahlfors Gives Function Theory a Geometric Spin -- 6. The War and Its Aftermath: Andrew Gleason, George Mackey, and an Assignation in Hilbert Space -- 7. The Europeans: Oscar Zariski, Richard Brauer, and Raoul Bott -- Epilogue: Numbers and Beyond -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
In the twentieth century, mathematicians at Harvard University trailblazed a distinctly American tradition in algebraic geometry and topology, complex analysis, number theory, and other esoteric fields. Written in accessible prose, A History in Sum takes a close look at the contributions to higher mathematics of these extraordinary minds |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Harvard University. Department of Mathematics.
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| SUBJECT |
Harvard University. Department of Mathematics fast |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching
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Massachusetts
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yau, Shing-Tung, 1949-
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| ISBN |
9780674726550 |
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0674726553 |
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