AMS History of Mathematics, Volume 1: A Century of Mathematics in America, Part I
Publication Date: 1988
Number of pages: 477 pp.
Publisher: AMS
ISBN 0-8218-0124-4
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- H-title
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Mathematical Progess in America by Thomas Scott Fiske
- The Beginnings of The American Mathematical Society, Reminiscences of Thomas Scott Fiske
- For the 100th Birthday of the American Mathematical Society by J.L. Synge
- J.J. Sylvester, John Hopkins and Partitions by George E. Andrews
- Thomas S. Fiske and Charles S. Peirce by Carolyn Eisele
- Luther Pfahler Eisenhart by Solomon Lefschetz
- Some Mathematical Reminiscences by D.V. Widder
- The Role of Logical Investigations in Mathematics Since 1930 by Stephen C. Kleene
- Memories of Bygone Meetings by R.P. Boas
- Moscow 1935: Topology Moving Toward America by Hassler Whitney
- Oswald Veblen by Deane Montgomery
- Some Books of Auld Lang Syne by P.R. Halmos
- Refugee Mathematicians in the United States of America, 1933-1941: Reception and Reaction by Nathan Reingold
- Reminiscences of a Mathematical Immigrant in the U.S. by Solomon Lefschetz
- The Threadbare Thirties by Ivan Niven
- The European Mathematicians' Migration to America by Lipman Bers
- Abraham Adrian Albert by Irving Kaplansky
- A Half Century of Reviewing by D.H. Lehmer
- American Mathematicians in WWI by G. Baley Price
- American Mathematicians in War Service
- The Mathematical Sciences and World War Service by Mina Rees
- Reminiscences of Bletchley Park, 1942-1945 by Peter Hilton
- Mathematics and Mathematicians in WWII by J. Barkley Rosser
- A Brief History of the Computer by Herman H. Goldstine
- Concepts and Categories in Perspective by Saunders Mac Lane
- Mathematical Biography by Marshall Hall, Jr.
- American Differential geometry--Some Personal Notes by Shiing-Shen Chern
- The Mathematical Scene, 1940-1965 by G. Baley Price
- Reminiscences of Forty Years as a Mathematician by W.S. Massey
- The Purge by Chandler Davis
- The Use of Mathematics by R.W. Hamming
- Algorithmic Themes by Donald E. Knuth
- The Classification of the Finite Simple Groups, A Personal Journey: The Early Years by Daniel Gorenstein