Fascinating Mathematical People - Interviews and Memoirs

Zusatztext "It is packed with anecdotes and suitable for the general reader or historian. A range of themes are introduced in the preface raising the potential for a more specialized biographical insight. An enjoyable read and learning experience." ---Wallace A Ferguson, Mathematics Today Informationen zum Autor Donald J. Albers is senior acquisitions editor at the Mathematical Association of America. Gerald L. Alexanderson is the Michael and Elizabeth Valeriote Professor of Science at Santa Clara University. They are the editors of Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews and More Mathematical People: Contemporary Conversations. Klappentext ""Fascinating Mathematical People" is a wonderfully varied collection. We meet brilliantly successful teachers! authors! a dentist! and two Fields Medal-winning Scandinavians. Some came from academic or intellectual families! another from a blazing-hot glass factory in Pennsylvania! and still another from an ancient and storied English aristocratic background. All of them had surprising side paths and detours on their way to mathematical success."--Reuben Hersh! coauthor of "Loving and Hating Mathematics" "This is a wonderful book."--Barry Cipra! coauthor of "What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences" Zusammenfassung A collection of informal interviews and memoirs of sixteen prominent members of the mathematical community of the twentieth century, many still active. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Philip J. Davis vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Sources xv One: Lars V. Ahlfors 1 Two: Tom Apostol 17 Three: Harold M. Bacon 43 Four: Tom Banchoff 52 Five: Leon Bankoff 79 Six: Alice Beckenbach 96 Seven: Arthur Benjamin 107 Eight: Dame Mary L. Cartwright 129 Nine: Joe Gallian 146 Ten: Richard K. Guy 165 Eleven: Fern Hunt 193 Twelve: Dusa McDuff 215 Thirteen: Donald G. Saari 240 Fourteen: Atle Selberg 254 Fifteen: Jean Taylor 274 Sixteen: Philippe Tondeur 294 Biographical Notes 319 Glossary 321 Index 325 ...

Product details

• Authors: Don Albers, Donald J. Albers, Donald J. Alexanderson Albers, Gerald Alexanderson, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Philip J Davis
• Assisted by: Donald J Albers (Editor), Donald J. Albers (Editor), Gerald L. Alexanderson (Editor), Alexanderson Gerald L. (Editor), Philip J. Davis (Foreword), Davis Philip J. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780691148298
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14829-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Princeton University Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; popular science, SCIENCE / General, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Biography: science, technology & medicine, History of mathematics, Biography: science, technology and medicine