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Pushing limits : from West Point to Berkeley & beyond / Ted Hill.
Van Pelt Library QA29.H5245 H55 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Theodore Preston, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hill, Theodore Preston.
- Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- United States.
- Veterans--United States--Biography.
- Veterans.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 294 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Providence, Rhode Island] : American Mathematical Society ; [Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, [2017]
- Contents:
- Day of the handshakes
- The star years
- Out of the gates
- Preparing for war
- Vietnam
- Return to reason
- The fulbright interlude
- Berzerkeley
- The apprenticeship
- Eurekas
- The global math guild
- The math ohana
- The Penn State syndrome
- Permanent sabbatical
- Postscript.
- ISBN:
- 9781470435844
- 1470435845
- OCLC:
- 962304244
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