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Mathematical people Profiles and interviews 2nd Edition by Donald Albers, Gerald L Alexanderson ISBN 1568813406 9781568813400

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Mathematical people Profiles and interviews 2nd Edition by Donald Albers, Gerald L Alexanderson ISBN 1568813406 9781568813400
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Publisher: AK Peters
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File size: 8.22 MB
Pages: 406
Author: Albers D.J., Alexanderson G.L. (eds.)
ISBN: 9781568813400, 1568813406
Language: English
Year: 2008

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ISBN 10: 1568813406 
ISBN 13: 9781568813400
Author: Donald Albers, Gerald L Alexanderson

This unique collection contains extensive and in-depth interviews with mathematicians who have shaped the field of mathematics in the twentieth century. Collected by two mathematicians respected in the community for their skill in communicating mathematical topics to a broader audience, the book is also rich with photographs and includes an introdu

Mathematical people Profiles and interviews 2nd Table of contents:

  1. Introduction: Reflections on Writing the History of Mathematics
  2. Bibliography
  3. Journals
  4. Garrett Birkhoff
  5. Lattice Theory
  6. Collaboration with Mac Lane
  7. Undergraduate Education
  8. Childhood and Early Education
  9. George D. Birkhoff’s Education
  10. Interest in Applied Algebra
  11. Interest in Mechanics
  12. George D. Birkhoff’s Work on the Four Color Problem
  13. Colleagues in Mexico
  14. Aesthetic Measure
  15. David Blackwell
  16. “Geometry Is a Beautiful Subject!”
  17. Planned to Be an Elementary School Teacher
  18. Graduate School and the Institute for Advanced Study
  19. Statistical Beginnings
  20. “I’m Sort of a Dilettante”
  21. Duels
  22. Blackwell on Teaching
  23. “Formulas and Symbols—I Don’t Especially Like Them”
  24. “I Think Proofs by Contradiction Are a Mistake”
  25. “I Applied Only to Black Institutions”
  26. Berkeley
  27. Blackwell on Leadership
  28. Blacks in Mathematics
  29. Families and Telephones
  30. Postscript
  31. Shiing-Shen Chern
  32. Postscript
  33. John Horton Conway
  34. The Doomsday Algorithm
  35. References
  36. Postscript
  37. H. S. M. Coxeter
  38. All Those Initials
  39. Early Interest in Mathematics
  40. Adventures at Trinity College, Cambridge
  41. What Is Geometry?
  42. The Top Geometers
  43. Elegant Examples
  44. The Four Color Problem
  45. Significant Unsolved Problems
  46. Who Teaches Geometry Best?
  47. Nice Geometry for Colleges
  48. Is Geometry Dead?
  49. References
  50. Postscript
  51. Persi Diaconis
  52. A Magical Beginning
  53. On the Road
  54. Martin Gardner and Graduate School
  55. “Statistics Is the Physics of Numbers”
  56. The Computer and New-Wave Statistics
  57. “I’ve Got to Have Applications”
  58. The Art of Finding Real Problems
  59. What Is Teaching?
  60. Psychics and ESP
  61. Debunking
  62. The MacArthur Prize
  63. Teaching Is Terrific”
  64. A Professorship in Magic
  65. Postscript
  66. Paul Erdős
  67. The Peripatetic Mathematician
  68. A Mathematical Prodigy
  69. Changes in the Teaching of Mathematics
  70. Erdős’s Mathematical Contributions and “The Book ”
  71. Erdős Numbers and Erdős Lore
  72. Nobel Prizes: Appropriate for Mathematics?
  73. Von Neumann and Gödel
  74. Child Prodigies
  75. Erdős’s First Two and a Half Billion Years in Mathematics
  76. Postscript
  77. Martin Gardner: Defending the Honor of the Human Mind
  78. Surprises
  79. Who Is Gardner?
  80. Mathematical Games
  81. The Greater Gardner
  82. Into the Future
  83. Martin Gardner: Master of Recreational Mathematics and Much More
  84. Magic
  85. Tulsa Roots
  86. Navy Service
  87. The Horse on the Escalator
  88. Origin of Writing Interests
  89. Humpty Dumpty
  90. Mathematical Games
  91. The Game of Life
  92. “I Just Write as Clearly as I Can”
  93. Philosophical Theism
  94. Dinner with Gödel
  95. “I’m Strictly a Journalist”
  96. Postscript
  97. Ronald L. Graham
  98. Calculus at Age 11
  99. Adding Points
  100. Complete Disorder Is Impossible
  101. Acrotheater
  102. The Berkeley System
  103. Erdős
  104. True Mark of Teaching
  105. Research and Arrows
  106. Music, Understanding, and Magic
  107. Postscript
  108. Paul Halmos
  109. Part I: Maverick Mathologist
  110. A Downward-Bound Philosopher
  111. A College Freshman at Age Fifteen
  112. “Suddenly I Understood Epsilons!”
  113. Inspirations
  114. Mathophysics
  115. What Is Mathematics?
  116. Federal Support of Mathematics?
  117. Why Write about Mathematics?
  118. Is Applied Mathematics Bad?
  119. Part II: In Touch with God
  120. The Best Part
  121. The Worst Part
  122. Halmos and the Law
  123. Practice, Practice
  124. Doing Mathematics
  125. The Root of All Deep Mathematics
  126. Seventy-Five and Worrying
  127. Father
  128. Smelling Mathematicians
  129. Postscript
  130. Peter J. Hilton
  131. Struck by a Rolls Royce
  132. Theatrical Aspirations
  133. Adopted Children in Africa
  134. The Advantages of Collaboration
  135. The Beginning of the Computer
  136. Mathematical Heroes
  137. The Decision to Leave England
  138. Postscript
  139. John Kemeny
  140. The Origin of BASIC
  141. Computing and Active Students
  142. The Future of Books
  143. The Hungarian Connection
  144. Logarithms at Age Nine
  145. “Einstein Did Need Help in Mathematics”
  146. Mathematical Literacy
  147. Postscript
  148. Morris Kline
  149. Early Opposition to “New Math”
  150. “Back-to-Basics” versus “New Math”
  151. History—A Guide to Pedagogy
  152. Does Research Affect Teaching?
  153. A Doctor of Arts Degree for Teachers?
  154. How to Motivate: Pure versus Applied Mathematics
  155. Expository Writing for Teachers
  156. Life at New York University
  157. Advice to Teachers
  158. Postscript
  159. Donald Knuth
  160. “I Got Headaches from Drawing Those Graphs”
  161. “I Always Had an Inferiority Complex”
  162. “I Discovered Computers in My Freshman Year—Before Girls”
  163. “Students Aren’t Learning How to Write”
  164. Computer Science versus Mathematics
  165. Basketball and Computers
  166. Origin of The Art of Computer Programming
  167. The Discipline of Writing
  168. The Roots of METAFONT
  169. Surreal Numbers
  170. Artificial Intelligence
  171. Solomon Lefschetz: A Reminiscence
  172. References
  173. Benoit Mandelbrot
  174. A Fractal Orbit
  175. The Influence of Lévy
  176. John von Neumann
  177. The IBM Fellowship
  178. How Long Is the Coast of Britain?
  179. The Rebirth of Geometry
  180. Computer Graphics
  181. Old Fractals and New Names
  182. The Antigeometry of Bourbaki
  183. The Fractal Manifesto
  184. New Fields to Conquer
  185. References
  186. Postscript
  187. Henry Pollak
  188. The Roots of Pollak
  189. Mathematical Heroes
  190. Cross-Country Mathematics
  191. Pollak as Teacher
  192. Teaching in Industry
  193. Missed Opportunities in Continuing Education
  194. Model Building in the Schools
  195. SMSG and the New Math: Reflections by One of the Pioneers
  196. The Second Round of SMSG
  197. Failure of SMSG at the Elementary Level
  198. Facts versus Opinions on Mathematical Education
  199. Do Mathematicians Suffer from Reality Anxiety?
  200. International Activities
  201. Bell Labs: Managing Mathematicians
  202. Advice to Academicians on Keeping People Happy
  203. Airplane Problems
  204. Is Applied Math Bad?
  205. Mathematics: Invented or Discovered?
  206. Postscript
  207. George Pólya
  208. Mathematics Is Between Philosophy and Physics
  209. The Pólya-Weyl Wager
  210. Mathematical Influences
  211. The Art of Problem Solving
  212. How to Solve It
  213. Postscript
  214. Mina Rees
  215. A Woman in Mathematics
  216. Mathematicians and Public Policy
  217. Awards and Honors
  218. Mathematicians During World War II
  219. Teaching versus Research
  220. Mathematics and Aesthetics
  221. Postscript
  222. Constance Reid
  223. The Question That Everyone Asks
  224. The Switch to Biographies
  225. The Story of Hilbert and Paradise Lost
  226. The Story of Courant, or Paradise Regained
  227. The Research on Hilbert
  228. Hilbert and Courant as Teachers
  229. Women in Mathematics
  230. Jerzy Neyman
  231. Postscript
  232. Herbert Robbins
  233. Confrontation with Courant
  234. Important Influences
  235. Becoming a Statistician
  236. The Creative Process
  237. Competitiveness in Mathematics
  238. Mathematical Reflections and Projections
  239. Getting Known in Mathematics
  240. What Does It Feel Like to Be a Mathematician?
  241. Teaching and Learning Mathematics
  242. Knowledge and Power
  243. Statistics and the Law
  244. Postscript
  245. Raymond Smullyan
  246. The Fair Sex
  247. Logic Puzzles
  248. New York
  249. High-School Days Continued
  250. Retrograde Analysis and Other Chess Topics
  251. Mathematics
  252. Truth Tables and Acting
  253. Logical Positivism
  254. Symbolic Logic and Theses
  255. Modesty
  256. Magical Days
  257. Teaching Mathematics
  258. Back to School
  259. Hobbies and Horsing Around
  260. Joking Around
  261. Postscript
  262. Olga Taussky-Todd
  263. University Days
  264. Göttingen
  265. Back in Vienna
  266. Bryn Mawr
  267. Emmy Noether
  268. Girton College, Cambridge, England
  269. University of London
  270. World War II
  271. USA: National Bureau of Standards, Princeton, Institute for Numerical Analysis
  272. Washington, D.C.
  273. Honors
  274. Epilogue
  275. Postscript
  276. Apropos
  277. Albert Tucker
  278. A Career as an Actuary?
  279. Mathematics or Physics?
  280. “Princeton Was the Place I Wanted to Go”
  281. How to Write a Thesis
  282. Combinatorial Mathematics
  283. “Unify and Simplify”
  284. “Develop Courses for Students”
  285. The Purpose of a Ph.D.
  286. Founding of the Annals of Mathematics Studies
  287. “Mathematics Must Become More Algorithmic”
  288. References
  289. Postscript
  290. Stanislaw M. Ulam
  291. Decision to Become a Mathematician
  292. Pure versus Applied
  293. Los Alamos and the Bomb
  294. It’s A Wise Father That Knows His Own Bomb
  295. Large Theorems
  296. Monte Carlo Methods
  297. References
  298. Postscript
  299. Biographical Data
  300. Garrett Birkhoff
  301. David Harold Blackwell
  302. Shiing-Shen Chern
  303. John Horton Conway
  304. Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
  305. Persi Diaconis
  306. Paul Erdös
  307. Martin Gardner
  308. Ronald Lewis Graham
  309. Paul Richard Halmos
  310. Peter John Hilton
  311. John George Kemeny
  312. Morris Kline
  313. Donald Ervin Knuth
  314. Solomon Lefschetz
  315. Benoit Mandelbrot
  316. Henry Otto Pollak
  317. George Pólya
  318. Mina Spiegel Rees
  319. Constance Bowman Reid
  320. Herbert Ellis Robbins
  321. Raymond Smullyan
  322. Olga Taussky-Todd
  323. Albert William Tucker
  324. Stanslaw Marcin Ulam

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