100 years of math milestones : the Pi Mu Epsilon centennial collection Stephan Ramon Garcia, Steven J. Miller

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Book

Author/Creator:

Garcia, Stephan Ramon, author.

Miller, Steven J., 1974- author.

Series:

AMS Non-Series Monographs, v. 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--United States--History.

Mathematics.

Pi Mu Epsilon.

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1 online resource

Other Title:

One hundred years of math milestones

Pi Mu Epsilon centennial collection

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island American Mathematical Society [2019]

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Mode of access : World Wide Web

Contents:

1913. Paul Erdős 1914. Martin Gardner 1915. General relativity and the absolute differential calculus 1916. Ostrowski's theorem 1917. Morse theory, but really Cantor 1918. Georg Cantor 1919. Brun's theorem 1920. Waring's problem 1921. Mordell's theorem 1922. Lindeberg condition 1923. The circle method 1924. The Banach-Tarski paradox 1925. The Schrödinger equation 1926. Ackermann's function 1927. William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1928. Random matrix theory 1929. Gödel's incompleteness theorems 1930. Ramsey theory 1931. The ergodic theorem 1932. The $3x+1$ problem 1933. Skewes's number 1934. Khinchin's constant 1935. Hilbert's seventh problem 1936. Alan Turing 1937. Vinogradov's theorem 1938. Benford's law 1939. The power of positive thinking 1940. A mathematician's apology 1941. The Foundation triology 1942. Zeros of $\zeta (s)$ 1943. Breaking Enigma 1944. Theory of games and economic behavior 1945. The Riemann hypothesis in function fields 1946. Monte Carlo method 1947. The simplex method 1948. Elementary proof of the prime number theorem 1949. Beurling's theorem 1950. Arrow's impossibility theorem 1951. Tennenbaum's proof of the irrationality of $\sqrt {2}$ 1952. NSA founded 1953. The Metropolis algorithm 1954. Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem 1955. Roth's theorem 1956. The GAGA principle 1957. The Ross program 1958. Smale's paradox 1959. $QR$ decomposition 1960. The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics 1961. Lorenz's nonperiodic flow 1962. The Gale-Shapely algorithm and the stable marriage problem

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2019

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