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ISBN-13
9780521520942
ISBN
9780521520942

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
American Mathematical Society
ISBN-10
0521520940
ISBN-13
9780521520942
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2252677

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
434 Pages
Publication Name
Remarkable Mathematicians : from Euler to Von Neumann
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Subject
General, Science & Technology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Mathematics, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Ioan James
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-022266
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
'The book stands out from other biographical collections by its engaging prose and its facility for putting a human face to mathematics. For anyone who would like to learn about the Fourier behind the Fourier series, or the Riemann of the Riemann hypothesis, this is a useful collection to have on the shelf ready to dip into.' British Society for the History of Science, ‘Enjoyable, accessible, informative across three centuries, and supplying an excellent concise bibliography of both primary and secondary sources, James’s book is a good reference work for those in any field or profession.’Endeavour, '... recommended to all scientists and teachers of mathematics, the history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as to anyone interested in history of science.' EMS Newsletter, "For those who plan to teach mathematics, some of these stories would make interesting asides in lectures of any level...Remarkable Mathematicians highlights the importance of personality and human interaction on the development of mathematical theory from the early 18th century to the early 20th century." Math Horizons, ‘… can be recommended to all scientists and teachers of mathematics, the history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as to anyone interested in history of science.’European Mathematical Society, '… recommended to all scientists and teachers of mathematics, the history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as to anyone interested in history of science.'EMS Newsletter, 'Enjoyable, accessible, informative across three centuries, and supplying an excellent concise bibliography of both primary and secondary sources, James's book is a good reference work for those in any field or profession.' Endeavour, '… recommended to all scientists and teachers of mathematics, the history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as to anyone interested in history of science.' EMS Newsletter, '... can be recommended to all scientists and teachers of mathematics, the history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as to anyone interested in history of science.' European Mathematical Society, '... will serve as an inspired contribution to the history of mathematics for a great many decades.' Kybernetes, '… can be recommended to all scientists and teachers of mathematics, the history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as to anyone interested in history of science.' European Mathematical Society, For those who plan to teach mathematics, some of these stories would make interesting asides in lectures of any level...Remarkable Mathematicians highlights the importance of personality and human interaction on the development of mathematical theory from the early 18th century to the early 20th century."" - Math Horizons, '… will serve as an inspired contribution to the history of mathematics for a great many decades.' Kybernetes
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
510/.92/2 B
Table Of Content
Preface; 1. From Euler to Legendre; 2. From Fourier to Cauchy; 3. From Abel to Grassmann; 4. From Kummer to Cayley; 5. From Hermite to Lie; 6. From Cantor to Hilbert; 7. From Moore to Takagi; 8. From Hardy to Lefschetz; 9. From Birkhoff to Alexander; 10. From Banach to von Neumann; Epilogue; Further reading.
Synopsis
Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The subjects, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made important contributions to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, and their influence. James emphasizes their varied life stories, not the details of their mathematical achievements. The book is organized chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains biographical sketches of six mathematicians. The men and women James has chosen to portray are representative of the history of mathematics, such that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed. Ioan James is a professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of Topological Topics (Cambridge, 1983), Fibrewise Topology (Cambridge, 1989), Introduction to Uniform Spaces (Cambridge, 1990), Topological and Uniform Spaces (Springer-Verlag New York, 1999), and co-author with Michael C. Crabb of Fibrewise Homotopy Theory (Springer-Verlag New York, 1998). James is the former editor of the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series and volume editor of numerous books. He is the organizer of the Oxford Series of Topology symposia and other conferences, and co-chairman of the Task Force for Mathematical Sciences of Campaign for Oxford., Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians, all born between 1700 and 1910, an era which saw mathematics freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The book is organised chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains potted life stories of six mathematicians, all of whom made an important contribution to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, their influence, and so on. They are sufficiently representative that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed.
LC Classification Number
QA28.J36 2002

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