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A history in sum : 150 years of mathematics at Harvard (1825-1975) / Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 249 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674726550
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QA13 .H578 2013
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: The Early Days-- A "Colledge" Riseth in the Cowyards -- 1. Benjamin Peirce and the Science of "Necessary Conclusions" -- 2 Osgood, Bôcher, and the Great Awakening in American Mathematics -- 3. The Dynamical Presence of George David Birkhoff -- 4. Analysis and Algebra Meet Topology: Marston Morse, Hassler Whitney, and Saunders Mac Lane -- 5. Analysis Most Complex: Lars Ahlfors Gives Function Theory a Geometric Spin -- 6. The War and Its Aftermath: Andrew Gleason, George Mackey, and an Assignation in Hilbert Space -- 7. The Europeans: Oscar Zariski, Richard Brauer, and Raoul Bott -- Epilogue: Numbers and Beyond -- Notes -- Index.
Subject: In the twentieth century, mathematicians at Harvard University trailblazed a distinctly American tradition in algebraic geometry and topology, complex analysis, number theory, and other esoteric fields. Written in accessible prose, A History in Sum takes a close look at the contributions to higher mathematics of these extraordinary minds.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: The Early Days-- A "Colledge" Riseth in the Cowyards -- 1. Benjamin Peirce and the Science of "Necessary Conclusions" -- 2 Osgood, Bôcher, and the Great Awakening in American Mathematics -- 3. The Dynamical Presence of George David Birkhoff -- 4. Analysis and Algebra Meet Topology: Marston Morse, Hassler Whitney, and Saunders Mac Lane -- 5. Analysis Most Complex: Lars Ahlfors Gives Function Theory a Geometric Spin -- 6. The War and Its Aftermath: Andrew Gleason, George Mackey, and an Assignation in Hilbert Space -- 7. The Europeans: Oscar Zariski, Richard Brauer, and Raoul Bott -- Epilogue: Numbers and Beyond -- Notes -- Index.

In the twentieth century, mathematicians at Harvard University trailblazed a distinctly American tradition in algebraic geometry and topology, complex analysis, number theory, and other esoteric fields. Written in accessible prose, A History in Sum takes a close look at the contributions to higher mathematics of these extraordinary minds.

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