Photographs accompanied by autobiographical text written by each mathematician.
Photographs accompanied by autobiographical text written by each mathematician.
Creators of Mathematical and Computational Sciences
Who Gave You the Epsilon? is a sequel to the MAA bestselling book, Sherlock Holmes in Babylon. Like its predecessor, this book is a collection of articles on the history of mathematics from the MAA journals, in many cases written by distinguished mathematicians (such as G H Hard…
"Where and how do we, as a culture, get our ideas about mathematics and about who can engage with mathematical knowledge? Sara N. Hottinger uses a cultural studies approach to address how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field. Sh…
Das verborgene Leben der Zahlen Dieses Buch berichtet voneinfachen undeigenartigen Zahlen, von mathematischen Entdeckungen und von denkwürdigen Phänomenen und Persönlichkeiten, die alle auf ihre Weisebeeinflusst haben, wie wir die Welt um uns herum verstehen. In den teils lustig…
The interval from 1890 to 1913 was a crucial time in the development of mathematical scholarship in the United States. At the beginning of this period mathematical research in American universities lagged far behind that in Europe. By the start of World War I the gap was largely…
