Remarkable mathematicians : from Euler to von Neumann / Ioan James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, I. M. (Ioan Mackenzie), 1928-

Series:

MAA spectrum

Spectrum series / the Mathematical Association of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematicians--Biography.

Mathematicians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 433 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

James introduces and profiles 60 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.

Contents:

Preface

Prologue

From Euler to Legendre

From Fourier to Cauchy

From Abel to Grassmann

From Kummer to Cayley

From Hermite to Sophus Lie

From Cantor to Hilbert

From E.H. Moore to Takagi

From Hardy to Lefschetz

From Birkhoff to Alexander

From Banach to von Neumann

Epilogue

Further reading

Collections

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-428).

ISBN:

0521817773

0521520940

OCLC:

49225682

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