Mathematical Reminiscences

by Eves, Howard W.

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Title Statements

Full title :Mathematical Reminiscences.

Summary

Howard Eves has enjoyed a long, distinguished career as a teacher, geometer, writer, editor and historian of mathematics. A renowned teacher and scholar, Eves spent most of his career at the University of Maine at Orono, and more recently at Central Florida University. For twenty-five years he edited the Elementary Problems Section of the American Mathematical Monthly. Long known as a mathematical storyteller, Howard Eves here writes his personal reminiscencesmostly mathematical, some not. The cast of characters includes Albert Einstein, Norbert Wiener, Julian Lowell Coolidge, Maurice Frchet, Nathan Altschiller-Court, G.H. Hardy, and many other interesting figures whom he encountered in a long and active life in mathematics. In Mathematical Reminiscences we read of Eves' famous mathematical museum, with its lock of Einstein's hair, Hardy's scarf, Veblen's bright yellow lead pencil, Wiener's hat, and much, much more.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:June 2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mathematical Association of America
Place of Publication:Washington
Language:eng
Publication Date:June 2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780883855355, 0883855356
oclc:ocn817962528
LC Classification:QA29.E9A3 2001
Dewey Decimal:510

The author has enjoyed a long, distinguished career as a teacher, geometer, writer, editor and historian of mathematics. A renowned teacher and scholar, he spent most of his career at the University of Maine at Orono, and more recently at Central Florida University. For twenty-five years he edited the Elementary Problems Section of the American Mathematical Monthly. Long known as a mathematical storyteller, he writes his personal reminiscences -- mostly mathematical, some not. The cast of characters includes Albert Einstein, Norbert Wiener, Julian Lowell Coolidge, Maurice Fréchet, Nathan Altschiller-Court, G.H. Hardy, and many other interesting figures whom he encountered in a long and active life in mathematics.