"Bestselling popular science author Amir Aczel selects the most fascinating individuals and stories in the history of mathematics, presenting a colorful narrative that explores the quirky personalities behind some of the most profound, enduring theorems. Through such mathematica…
A challenge of numbers: people in the mathematical sciences
by National Research Council (U.S.)., Mathematical Sciences Education Board, National Research Council (U.S.)., Board on Mathematical Sciences, Madison, Bernard L., Hart, Therese A., Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in the Year 2000
A challenge of numbers: people in the mathematical sciences
by National Research Council (U.S.)., Mathematical Sciences Education Board, National Research Council (U.S.)., Board on Mathematical Sciences, Madison, Bernard L., Hart, Therese A., Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in the Year 2000
Paul R. Halmos, eminent mathematician and brilliant expositor, is also a snapshot addict. Between 1943 and 1988, Halmos photographed mathematicians, their spouses, their brothers and sisters and other relatives, their offices, their dogs, and their carillon towers. From the 6000…
Introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians, starting with the era which saw mathematics freed from its classical origins and ending in the development of its modern form.
"This is a very frank and detailed account by a leading and very active mathematician of the past decades whose contributions have had an important impact in those fields where mathematics is now an integral part. It starts from his early childhood just after the First World War…
Photographs accompanied by autobiographical text written by each mathematician.
Photographs accompanied by autobiographical text written by each mathematician.
William Burnside was one of the three most important algebraists who were involved in the transformation of group theory from its nineteenth-century origins to a deep twentieth-century subject. Building on work of earlier mathematicians, they were able to develop sophisticated t…
