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Author: Raymond Clare Archibald
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 1938-12-31
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780821896778
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume outlines the history of the AMS in its first fifty years. To download free chapters of this book, click here.
Author: Raymond Clare Archibald
Publisher: Ayer Company Pub
Published: 1980-06-01
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ISBN-13: 9780405126185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Mathematical Society
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter L. Duren
Publisher: Springer Science & Business
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780821801369
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: American Mathematical Society
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 1938
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780821801192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers brief treatises on several mathematical areas and a historical summary of American contributions to mathematics during the Society's first fifty years.
Author: Judy Green
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 0821843761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the American women who earned PhD's in mathematics before 1940, and collected extensive biographical and bibliographical information about each of them. By reconstructing as complete a picture as possible of this group of women, Green and LaDuke reveal insights into the larger scientific and cultural communities in which they lived and worked." "The book contains an extended introductory essay, as well as biographical entries for each of the 228 women in the study. The authors examine family backgrounds, education, careers, and other professional activities. They show that there were many more women earning PhD's in mathematics before 1940 than is commonly thought." "The material will be of interest to researchers, teachers, and students in mathematics, history of mathematics, history of science, women's studies, and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jeremy J. Gray
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 2011-08-31
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0821869043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Algebra, as a subdiscipline of mathematics, arguably has a history going back some 4000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. The history, however, of what is recognized today as high school algebra is much shorter, extending back to the sixteenth century, while the history of what practicing mathematicians call "modern algebra" is even shorter still. The present volume provides a glimpse into the complicated and often convoluted history of this latter conception of algebra by juxtaposing twelve episodes in the evolution of modern algebra from the early nineteenth-century work of Charles Babbage on functional equations to Alexandre Grothendieck's mid-twentieth-century metaphor of a ``rising sea'' in his categorical approach to algebraic geometry. In addition to considering the technical development of various aspects of algebraic thought, the historians of modern algebra whose work is united in this volume explore such themes as the changing aims and organization of the subject as well as the often complex lines of mathematical communication within and across national boundaries. Among the specific algebraic ideas considered are the concept of divisibility and the introduction of non-commutative algebras into the study of number theory and the emergence of algebraic geometry in the twentieth century. The resulting volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of modern mathematics in general and modern algebra in particular. It will be of particular interest to mathematicians and historians of mathematics.
Author: Ivor Grattan-Guiness
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-11-11
Total Pages: 813
ISBN-13: 1134888392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Karen Hunger Parshall
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published:
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780821896730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although today's mathematical research community takes its international character very much for granted, this ''global nature'' is relatively recent, having evolved over a period of roughly 150 years-from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. During this time, the practice of mathematics changed from being centered on a collection of disparate national communities to being characterized by an international group of scholars for whom thegoal of mathematical research and cooperation transcended national boundaries. Yet, the development of an international community was far from smooth and involved obstacles such as war, political upheaval, and national rivalries. Until now, this evolution has been largely overlooked by historians andmathematicians alike. This book addresses the issue by bringing together essays by twenty experts in the history of mathematics who have investigated the genesis of today's international mathematical community. This includes not only developments within component national mathematical communities, such as the growth of societies and journals, but also more wide-ranging political, philosophical, linguistic, and pedagogical issues. The resulting volume is essential reading for anyone interestedin the history of modern mathematics. It will be of interest to mathematicians, historians of mathematics, and historians of science in general.
