Mathematics and mathematicians : mathematics in Sweden before 1950 / Lars Garding.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Gårding, Lars, 1919-2014, author.

Series:

• History of mathematics ; Volume 13.
• History of Mathematics ; Volume 13

Standardized Title:

• Matematik och matematiker. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Mathematics--Sweden--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society : London Mathematical Society, 1998.

Summary:

This book is about mathematics in Sweden between 1630 and 1950-from S. Klingenstierna to M. Riesz, T. Carleman, and A. Beurling. It tells the story of how continental mathematics came to Sweden, how it was received, and how it inspired new results. The book contains a biography of Gösta Mittag-Leffler, the father of Swedish mathematics, who introduced the Weierstrassian theory of analytic functions and dominated a golden age from 1880 to 1910. Important results are analyzed and re-proved in modern notation, with explanations of their relations to mathematics at the time. The book treats Bäcklund transformations, Mittag-Leffler's theorem, the Phragmén-Lindelöf theorem and Carleman's contributions to the spectral theorem, quantum mechanics, and the asymptotics of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Other important features include sketches of personalities and university life. Features: Presents the first thorough treatment of mathematics in Sweden. Discusses the work of the great mathematicians and the development of mathematics throughout Europe. Brings the mathematics of an era to life in an informative and highly readable way.

Contents:

• Cover
• Title page
• Contents
• Photograph Credits
• Preface to the Swedish edition
• Preface to the American edition
• The eighteenth century
• The time 1800-1850
• A new time in Uppsala and Lund 1860-1890
• Algebraic geometry in Lund before 1900
• Bäcklund
• Uppsala 1860-1900
• Gösta Mittag-Leffler-A biography
• Mittag-Leffler's and Sonya Kovalevski's mathematical papers
• Astronomy and optics
• Stockholm University 1880-1920 I
• Stockholm University 1880-1920 II
• Uppsala 1900-1930
• Lund 1900-1925
• Stockholm 1925-1950
• Lund 1925-1950
• Uppsala 1930-1950
• Mathematicians in Sweden
• Postscript
• Index
• Back Cover.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4704-3881-X