A Century of Mathematics in America

by Duren, Peter; Askey, Richard A.; Merzbach, Uta C.

• ISBN13: 9780821801246
• ISBN10: 0821801244
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-10-01
• Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society

Summary

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

The Nineteenth Century American mathematics comes of age, 1875-1900

W. E. Story of Hopkins and Clark

The best method. American calculus textbooks of the nineteenth century

Edwards' differential calculus [Reprint]

Mathematics at American Institutions The School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study

Mathematics at Columbia during adolescence

The MIT department of mathematics during its first seventy-five years. Some recollections

Mathematics at the University of Michigan

Reminiscences of mathematics at Michigan

The building of the University of Texas mathematics faculty, 1883-1938

Mathematics and Mathematicians Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931) [Reprint]

Edward Burr Van Vleck, 1863-1943 [Reprint]

The Mathematical Work of R. L. Moore; Its background, nature, and influence [Reprint]

Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883-1966) [Reprint]

Norbert Wiener: A survey of a fragment of his life and work

The school of Antoni Zygmund

Handbooks of special functions

Commemorative meeting for Alfred Tarski

Julia Bowman Robinson (1919-1985) [Reprint]

Function algebras in the fifties and sixties

Addendum: Concepts and categories in perspective

Surveys and Recollections The joy of function theory

Black Americans in mathematics

Once over lightly

Mathematicians in World War II: The group at Columbia

The education of Ph.D's in mathematics

Off the record

Probability, Statistics, and Actuarial Science Mathematical statistics in the early states [Reprint]

William Feller and twentieth century probability [Reprint]

Early days in statistics at Michigan [Reprint]

S. S. Wilks's Princeton appointment and statistics at Princeton before Wilks

A conversation with David Blackwell [Reprint]

Personal reflections on actuarial science in North America from 1900

History of Mathematics Article on American historians of mathematics

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