A century of mathematics in America

Author(s)

• Askey, Richard
• Duren, Peter L.
• Merzbach, Uta C.
• Edwards, Harold M

Bibliographic Information

A century of mathematics in America

edited by Peter Duren, with the assistance of Richard A. Askey, Uta C. Merzbach

（History of mathematics, v. 1-3）

American Mathematical Society, c1988-1989

• pt. 1
• pt. 2
• pt. 3

Note

Vol. 3: with the assistance of Rechard A. Askey, Harold M. Edwards, Uta C. Merzbach

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

pt. 1 ISBN 9780821801246

Description

In the 100 years since the founding of the AMS, the American mathematical community has grown from a small group heavily dependent on European mathematicians to a large and influential group that in many areas sets the standard for the rest of the world. By the 1930s, there was a flourishing mathematical community to welcome the influx of mathematicians fleeing Europe. This volume, the first in the History of Mathematics series, brings together a variety of perspectives on the political, social, and mathematical forces that have shaped the American mathematical community in the past century.

Table of Contents

• Mathematical progress in America
• The beginnings of the American Mathematical Society, Reminiscences of Thomas Scott Fiske by T. S. Fiske For the 100th birthday of the American Mathematical Society by J. L. Synge J. J. Sylvester, Johns Hopkins, and Partitions by G. E. Andrews Thomas S. Fiske and Charles S. Peirce by C. Eisele Luther Pfahler Eisenhart by S. Lefschetz Some mathematical reminiscences by D. V. Widder The role of logical investigations in mathematics since 1930 by S. C. Kleene Memories of bygone meetings by R. P. Boas Moscow 1935: Topology moving toward America by H. Whitney Oswald Veblen by D. Montgomery Some books of Auld Lang Syne by P. R. P. R. Halmos Refugee mathematicians in the United States of America, 1933-1941: Reception and reaction by N. Reingold Reminiscences of a mathematical immigrant in the U.S. by S. Lefschetz The threadbare thirties by I. Niven The European mathematicians' migration to America by L. Bers Abraham Adrian Albert by I. Kaplansky A half century of reviewing by D. H. Lehmer American mathematicians in WWI
• American mathematicians in War service by G. B. Price The mathematical sciences and World War service by M. Rees Reminiscences of Bletchley Park, 1942-45 by P. Hilton Mathematics and mathematicians in WWII by J. B. Rosser A brief history of the computer by H. H. Goldstine Concepts and categories in perspective by S. Mac Lane Mathematical biography by M. Hall, Jr. merican differential geometry--some personal notes by S.-S. Chern The mathematical scene, 1940-1965 by G. B. Price Reminiscences of forty years as a mathematician by W. S. Massey The purge by C. Davis The use of mathematics by R. W. Hamming Algorithmic themes by D. E. Knuth The classification of the finite simple groups, a personal journey: The early years. by D. Gorenstein.

Volume

pt. 2 ISBN 9780821801307

Description

The first section of the book deals with some of the influential mathematics departments in the United States. Functioning as centers of research and training, these departments played a major role in shaping the mathematical life in this country. The second section deals with an extraordinary conference held at Princeton in 1946 to commemorate the university's bicentennial. The influence of women in American mathematics, the burgeoning of differential geometry in the last 50 years, and discussions of the work of von Karman and Weiner are among other topics covered.

Table of Contents

Mathematics at American Universities Harvard Mathematics at Harvard, 1836-1944 by G. Birkhoff The scientific work of Maxime Bocher [Reprint] by G. D. Birkhoff William Fogg Osgood [Reprint] by J. L. Walsh Yale Mathematics and Yale in the nineteen twenties by H. Dorwart The scientific style of Josiah Willard Gibbs [Reprint] by M. J. Klein The department of mathematics [Reprint] by P. W. Smith Chicago Mathematics at the University of Chicago: A brief history by S. MacLane Eliakim Hastings Moore and the founding of a mathematical community in America, 1892-1902 [Reprint] by K. H. Parshall Graduate student at Chicago in the '20s [Reprint] by W. L. Duren, Jr. Reminiscences of mathematics at Chicago [Reprint] by M. H. Stone The Stone age of mathematics on the Midway [Reprint] by F. E. Browder Princeton The emergence of Princeton as a world center for mathematical research, 1896-1939 [Reprint] by W. Aspray Topology and logic at Princeton by S. MacLane Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties by G.-C. Rota Stanford A history of mathematics at Stanford by H. Royden Studying under Polya and Szegoat Stanford [Reprint] by P. C. Rosenbloom Berkeley An opportune time: Griffith C. Evans and mathematics at Berkeley by R. E. Rider NYU The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences by C. S. Morawetz Princeton University Bicentennial Conference Proceedings of conference on "Problems of Mathematics," Princeton University, 1946 [Reprint] Commentary: Algebra by J. Tate and B. Gross Algebraic geometry by H. Clemens Differential geometry by R. Osserman Mathematical logic by Y. N. Moschovakis Topology by W. Browder Mathematical probability by J. L. Doob Analysis by E. M. Stein Analysis in the large by K. Uhlenbeck Historical Surveys The Ph.D. degree and mathematical research [Reprint] by R. G. D. Richardson Women in American mathematics: A century of contributions by J. Green and J. LaDuke Mathematics in American society by W. L. Duren, Jr. Recollections of a mathematical innocent in Washington by L. W. Cohen The flowering of applied mathematics in America by P. Lax Theodore von Karman and applied mathematics in America [Reprint] by J. L. Greenberg and J. R. Goodstein Norbert Weiner and chaos by B. McMillan Some non-commutativity methods in algebraic number theory by O. Taussky The geometry renaissance in America: 1938-1988 by R. Osserman The topological constraints on analysis by R. Bott The development of intersection homology theory by S. L. Kleiman.

Volume

pt. 3 ISBN 9780821801369

Description

The present book is the third and final volume in the ""A Century of Mathematics in America"" collection. The theme of the second volume is continued here in articles describing 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.

Table of Contents

• The Nineteenth Century American mathematics comes of age, 1875-1900 by K. V. H. Parshall and D. E. Rowe W. E. Story of Hopkins and Clark by R. Cooke and V. F. Rickey The best method. American calculus textbooks of the nineteenth century by G. M. Rosenstein, Jr. Edwards' differential calculus [Reprint] by C. A. Scott Mathematics at American Institutions The School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study by A. Borel Mathematics at Columbia during adolescence by E. R. Lorch The MIT department of mathematics during its first seventy-five years. Some recollections by D. J. Struik Mathematics at the University of Michigan by W. Kaplan Reminiscences of mathematics at Michigan by R. L. Wilder The building of the University of Texas mathematics faculty, 1883-1938 by A. C. Lewis Mathematics and Mathematicians Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931) [Reprint] by P. C. Kenschaft Edward Burr Van Vleck, 1863-1943 [Reprint] by R. E. Langer and M. H. Ingraham The Mathematical Work of R. L. Moore
• Its background, nature, and influence [Reprint] by R. L. Wilder Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883-1966) [Reprint] by L. S. Grinstein and P. J. Campbell Norbert Wiener: A survey of a fragment of his life and work by P. Masani The school of Antoni Zygmund by R. Coifman and R. Strichartz Handbooks of special functions by R. Askey Commemorative meeting for Alfred Tarski by S. Feferman, P. Suppes, and J. Barwise Julia Bowman Robinson (1919-1985) [Reprint] by C. Reid and R. M. Robinson Function algebras in the fifties and sixties by J. Wermer Addendum: Concepts and categories in perspective by S. MacLane Surveys and Recollections The joy of function theory by L. V. Ahlfors Black Americans in mathematics by J. A. Donaldson Once over lightly by J. L. Kelley Mathematicians in World War II: The group at Columbia by S. MacLane The education of Ph.D's in mathematics by S. MacLane Off the record by E. Pitcher Probability, Statistics, and Actuarial Science Mathematical statistics in the early states [Reprint] by S. M. Stigler William Feller and twentieth century probability [Reprint] by J. L. Doob Early days in statistics at Michigan [Reprint] by C. C. Craig S. S. Wilks's Princeton appointment and statistics at Princeton before Wilks by C. Eisenhart A conversation with David Blackwell [Reprint] by M. H. DeGroot Personal reflections on actuarial science in North America from 1900 by C. J. Nesbitt History of Mathematics Article on American historians of mathematics by U. C. Merzbach.

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Details

• NCID: BA04858501
• ISBN:
  • 0821801244
  • 0821801309
  • 0821801368
• LCCN: 88022155
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Providence, RI
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 27 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA27.U5
  • DC19 : 510/.973
  • NDC8 : 410.25
  • NDC8 : 410.253
  • NDC8 : 410.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mathematics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04858793